[Magdalen] Please pray for Ascension, Chicago

[Roger Stokes]

On 18/01/2015 00:07, Scott Knitter wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Marion Thompson
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I deplore that people leave a place for reasons like staff changes. Is not
>> God still there?  Can't people focus on that?
> One parishioner sent me a draft of his "resignation" letter, which
> recounted his 30 years of service, generous contributions, and gave
> the amount of the large bequest he intended to make. My response was
> that this letter is obviously from the heart and I can't possibly
> suggest any changes, and I hated that he felt he has to leave. But I
> personally won't miss his constant dramatics and self-promotion, and
> his habit of raising up his own presence as more important in the
> parish than anyone else's.

A true pillar of the church they hold things up and obstruct the 
vision.  (a marvellous observation I read or heard years ago.)

Roger