[Magdalen] homily:Bishop Shaw's funeral

[Christopher Hart]

Love it!!! LOL

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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