December 14th, 14 Years Ago

December 14th, 14 Years Ago December 14, 2006

That was the day, on the Western Calendar – St John of the Cross, that I was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church at St Mary’s Parish, Asheville, North Carolina. This photo post is in honour of the living and in memory of two dear friends who fell asleep in the Lord this year.

This is a pic of me and God’s blessings, the women in my life: wife, mom, grandma. The pious practice was for the newly ordained to lay a dozen roses at the shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary — ‘cept, if she was present, to give your mom one from the group. My grandmother being there, she got two. (And, thanks God, she’s still with us.)

His back is turned and still the personality shines forth! This is Fr Darwin Kirby talking to my wife. His gift to me that night (those who know him know that it may have been “recycled” 🙂 was a large coffee table book of Rumanian iconography. May his memory be eternal!

Finally, the excellent preacher and mentor (now here), Fr Andrew Sloane, the homilist at my ordination, visiting with Sheila Douglas.

May God rest her soul with the Saints in Light: Memory eternal!

“The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.”

— St John of the Cross


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