Holy Monday
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown." - William Penn
I retired almost eight weeks ago. It has been an…adjustment. Especially during Lent and now Holy Week. As strange as this may sound, I miss the exhaustion and constraining schedule; what Kris Kristofferson called “the freedom of my chains”.
So, when I was asked to officiate last week at the Burial Office for a good man who had been a parishioner of mine …