Friday in the First Week of Lent

My soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning, * more than watchmen for the morning.

I may have scandalized the younger clergy with whom I work.

As they are neophytes in our ordained discipline, they are all recent graduates of seminaries and divinity schools. This means they are well-versed in what is proper and true in Anglicanism and what is anathema.

Unfortunately, that almost always guarantees that they can be narrow-minded in their…