Today (which happens to be the twenty-second anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood) we announced that, LORD willing, my retirement will begin on May 1st, 2014.
I'll be seventeen years late according to Numbers 8, but then I'm not Levitical.
We will have served The LORD and His people at here at StB for fifteen good years.
The prospect is at once alluring and a little frightening, joyful and sad.
a clergyman may be apparently as useless as a cat, but he is also as fascinating, for there must be some strange reason for his existence (GK Chesterton): one retired Anglican septuagenarian clergyman's THOUghts, discOverings, readings, scribbLes, wOndeRings and dooDles exploring that strange reason
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