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MONDAY MORNING was always the worst. It was not just that,<br > being a member of the clergy, I found the day after Sunday a letdown.<br > Partly it was memory: my late husband, Patrick, also a member of the<br > clergy, needed more wifely reassurance and general affirmation on<br > Monday morning than on any other day. Sunday, the busiest day of his<br > week, he woke up exalted, ready to do the Lord s work, the parish s<br > work, and to be father, husband, brother, son and all-purpose friend to<br > a vast number of people who would turn up at the ten-th rty service to<br > tell him (1) how wonderful he was, (2) that their problem (whatever it<br > was) had come to a nasty head and they needed to have a private<br > conference with him immediately or (3) they didn t wish to be nega-<br > tive, but felt that he, Patrick, would want them always to be honest,<br > and with that in mind they (or he or she) felt called upon to state that<br > his (Patrick s) sermons were not as good as they used to be.<br > Patrick took all that in his stride as he shook hand after hand. He<br > always had two Comments that he felt could cover any contingency<br > (excluding personal tragedy): "Thank you very much for letting me<br > know how you feel" and/or Tll take it up with the vestry."<br > Which makes him sound cynical--which he wasn t. Far from it. A<br >product of the sixties, Patrick came to the Episcopal priesthood out of<br >the civil-rights and anti-war movements. He was an idealistic activist,<br >and he remained that, more or less, for all of his short life. Becoming<br >rector of a parish did not dent his idea/ism, but it did bring him up<br >short behind tiresome and depressing details, such as trying to pay the<br >heating bill for the church and parish house and having to draw up an<br >annual budget when people felt it against their principles to pledge<br >
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