Mea vita mea est: Of Vocation and Change
"...aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands.., so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one." - I Thessalonians 4:11-12
The hardest thing that I have ever done as a priest is render “last rites” to my wife. Fortunately, she recovered completely, but it was an ordeal at the time.
The second hardest thing that I have ever done was last week when I announced that I was ceasing to be a parish priest and moving on from people I have grown to care for and admire during most of…