A simple act of love

[Bailey2]

“St. Francis de Sales, that great saint, would leave off writing with the letter of a word half-formed in order to reply to an interruption.”   
-St. John Vianney

[Brigid]

That is similar to a nun's dropping immediately everything as soon as the first chime of the bell for offices.

[Shin]

That was just what I was thinking of Brigid! I was remembering a story of a monk in the desert and his obedience. And yes how the nuns in the convent practice this too...