[Magdalen] homily:Bishop Shaw's funeral

[Jay Weigel]

Some bishops remind me of a former sheriff of Hamblen County, TN. One
evening the late ex and I and our daughter, who was then about 19, were
having dinner at a local restaurant when said sheriff sauntered in with his
party and sat down at a table next to us. The sheriff took off his jacket,
on which was embroidered "Sheriff Otto Purkey", to reveal a shirt with the
same legend and also a belt on which was embossed the exact same thing.
Betsy surveyed the situation coolly, then leaned over and said sotto voce
to us, "I wonder if he has 'Sheriff Otto Purkey' embroidered on his
underwear!" Her dad nearly spit tea all over the table.


On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I read the anecdote about his statement that he was wearing the
> pectoral cross because he was "monk of the month," I couldn't help thinking
> of another very different sort of bishop who was on the Board of Trustees
> at VTS. He was in the board room where everyone was gathering to vest
> before a service, and he suddenly slammed his fist down on the table and
> shouted, "Don't give me any of that crap about 'Once a deacon, always a
> deacon'!  I'm a bishop, Goddammit!!"  All I could think of, in the hushed
> silence that followed, was that I was glad he wasn't MY bishop!
>
> > On Nov 1, 2014, at 10:39 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://ssje.org/ssje/2014/11/01/funeral-service-m-thomas-shaw-ssje-br-geoffrey-tristram/
> >
> > I'm glad he touched, if briefly, on Tom's temper.
> > -M
>