[Magdalen] immigration / migrant situation --->Re: Professional panhandle...

[Grace Cangialosi]

A friend told me that one piece of advice he was given in seminary was never to wear his collar on a plane!  Good advice, that! You end up being a captive audience for the person seated next to you...

> On Sep 16, 2015, at 6:29 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I had a friend who wore clericals on a flight to the West Coast.
> Once.
> Only once.
> -M
> 
> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>>> On 16/09/2015 22:19, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>> 
>>> The priest would run a hospital for sick souls.  Probably many more than
>>> one on board, if they felt troubled enough to go to the 'infirmary'.
>> 
>> A while back I saw a sewries about a ship on a round the world cruise
>> which included the Chaplain.  Watching that was quite enough to put me off
>> the idea of that sort of role.  There are always some people who will seek
>> out a cleric and expect a warm welcome and an open ear.  Like others here I
>> prefer time to be on my own and not be sociable with people I barely know,
>> if that, several times a day at meals.
>> 
>> Roger
>>