Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent
The Lord is righteous in all his ways * and loving in all his works. The Lord is near to those who call upon him, * to all who call upon him faithfully.
When I lived in New York City, I would wander down 9th Avenue to Hudson Street in the Village three times a week to read Evening Prayer with a long-retired, and rather legendary, priest.
He was in his upper nineties by this time with his vision compromised. My role was to read the daily office aloud so that he might join me…