As I get balder and grayer and deafer, it gets harder and harder to refer to junior clergy, many in their twenties, ‘Mother’ or ‘Father’. My son is older than they are! (The clergy here will get a sermon by Bp Mary Glasspool. They're so lucky.)
I was reading this morning how the administration is closing Head Start regional offices around the country. And your column gave me a vision of people, clergy, leaders of the faith washing the feet of those in need. And I tried to imagine Trump washing the feet of anyone. It would be good for him, and all leaders, everywhere, to do so.
One needs humility - more than a soupçon of it - to wash another's feet. I fear Old King Donald does not have the qualifications. He does, however, have the need.
I often wonder: Who hurt him? Or, perhaps, who hurt him most? What a broken soul.
Unholy Week (for Harvey, just starting seminary)
When you’re a priest
your voice must carry
the words clearly
to the people’s ears.
(Past that it’s up to them.)
You must say
died
before he died
bread
broken
poured out
You must say
body
You must say
blood.
Do we not know that we are baptized into Christ’s death?
We do.
We have renounced
-Satan and the spiritual forces of wickedness
-the evil powers of the world which corrupt and destroy the creatures
-all sinful desires
Easter’s coming, we hear,
despite what we see.
You must read the holy words
in the unspeakable world this week
that cries out:
Gaza
ICE
revoked
rented prison
death camp
Cries out
no bread
no mercy
blood
and more blood
I am too old, thank God,
to have to read appointed words
through weeping that this week
overtakes me, and will not stop.
Oh, Martha! Oh, my. Thank you.
As I get balder and grayer and deafer, it gets harder and harder to refer to junior clergy, many in their twenties, ‘Mother’ or ‘Father’. My son is older than they are! (The clergy here will get a sermon by Bp Mary Glasspool. They're so lucky.)
I’m skipping renewal of vows today. I just can’t drive 2 1/2 hours each way and then stay for lunch (okra soup🤢). There’s just too much to be done.
I was reading this morning how the administration is closing Head Start regional offices around the country. And your column gave me a vision of people, clergy, leaders of the faith washing the feet of those in need. And I tried to imagine Trump washing the feet of anyone. It would be good for him, and all leaders, everywhere, to do so.
One needs humility - more than a soupçon of it - to wash another's feet. I fear Old King Donald does not have the qualifications. He does, however, have the need.
I often wonder: Who hurt him? Or, perhaps, who hurt him most? What a broken soul.