What Would Father Scully Do?

“From one bell all the bells toll.” - Dejan Stojanović [the contemporary Serbian poet, not the soccer player]

[The following is an adaptation of a homily for a collection of new clergy.]

Father Scully was hungry.

All of us knew this as he would begin to prowl the neighborhood like some kind of feral fauna.

Father Scully did not cook. As far as anyone knew, he could not make a sandwich. On the rectory housekeeper’s day off, Scully would walk about the streets surr…