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• Post #2814645

  We kick over to a single service at 9:00 for the summer beginning today. That’s an extra hour I have before everything starts and I always feel like I’m forgetting something. #Episcopal #Pentecost #SLECBuffalo #PriestLife

• Post #2793559

  We have an aumbry/tabernacle (depending on how you define it). It’s used to hold consecrated elements and oils (search “church tabernacle image”) if you don’t know. We also have an organist who spent most of his life in the Congregational Church. He was asking about the things on/around the altar and I pointed and said, “That’s the aumbry.” He replied, “Is that the coffee pot thing?” #Wow #Episcopal #Education #Funny #SLECBuffalo

• Post #2793558

  Mrs. Ref came home early because she wasn’t feeling well. When I walked in, she said, “You’re on your own for dinner.” I made a grilled ham & cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup. #ComfortFood #Yum

• Post #2793557

  Sometime in early Lent the local LCMS church put up three crosses with a figure of Jesus on the middle one. This really bothered Mrs. Ref because “He’s not even in Jerusalem yet!!” It was still up on Easter, and her response was, “People!! Get it right.” Finally, today, on the Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter, I noticed it all came down. Her response: “Like Thomas, it took them awhile to figure it out.”

• Post #2793556

  Mrs. Ref and I are traveling back to MD to see The Kid. Between hotels saying they have an airport shuttle and not, United Airlines being …. well …. United Airlines 🙄😖😤🤬 …. the hotel “breakfast” that consists of packaged muffins and juice …. This has been a less-than-ideal beginning. #HateTraveling

• Post #2793555

  The vacation had a less than stellar beginning, but it turned out to be a good time. Visits with a variety of friends, a trip to the #DCZoo, good food, and we had time to see #ProjectHailMary (which was excellent, btw). But, as is apparently tradition for every parish I’ve served, one parishioner died while I was away. And it wasn’t the one I was expecting. So dealing with that is Item Number One on my to do list today. #Episcopal #PriestLife #Vacation #Death

• Post #2793553

  I’m on a delayed #BarWeek because of vacation last week. Hanging out at the diviest of the bars last night and talking with a patron, another over-served patron hollers at me from the end of the bar, “How much do I need to pay to be a good Christian??” I said, “Nothing …. That’s not how it works.” #Episcopal #SLECBuffalo #PriestLife

• Post #2793552

  My current diocese has a local ordination process for people discerning ordination calls. I got a request from the Dean of the program to take on an intern. I did this when I was in MD, I enjoy the process and helping people with the whole thing, so I agreed. HOWEVER…..This one is going to be a challenge. She has told the COM that she thinks she does everything well and has no weaknesses. She’s quit the racial sensitivity program because it “blames white people for everything.” So we’ll see how...

• Post #2793551

  Pulling hard for the #BuffaloSabres tonight. #LetsGoBuffalo #Sabres

• Post #2793550

  It’s #Easter7, the Sunday after #TheAscension. Theologically speaking, it’s now up to us to live into the life and ministry of Christ. We need to get better. #Ascension #Episcopal #SLECBuffalo

• Post #2793549

  #Game7 #LetsGoBuffalo #Sabres

• Post #2793548

  I found some hidden gunk in the bathroom this morning. No matter how often we clean the bathroom, a variety of gunk always accumulates. Kind of like sin. No matter how often we confess and work towards being better, sin always accumulates, gunking up our lives. #RandomThoughts

• Post #2793547

  I now have two parishioners on hospice. Went to visit the latest one in the hospital this morning. I told him he was going to miss Pentecost services tomorrow, and that we’re going to one service at 9:00 for the summer. I then said, “You’ll miss a great sermon—I’m going to get drunk and speak in tongues 😂😂” I thought he was going to literally die laughing. Thankfully he didn’t. #Episcopal #SLECBuffalo #PriestLife #HospiceHumor