A Day in the Diocese

Today was a wonderful day in the Diocese of New York--seven transitional deacons were ordained priests at the Cathedral, and one of them is a very good friend--a woman whose spiritual journey has intersected with mine, whose presentation of what the Eucharist meant to her has illuminated my own call.

The Cathedral puts on the dog a bit for ordination--the soloists were outstanding, the readings delivered by friends new and old, and the day filled with light, love and hope, ending with the strains of the Widor Toccata celebrating the beginning of the priestly ministry of the "Magnificent Seven" as the homilist and the Bishop called the seven ordinands--all women, as it happened.

A hopeful sign for the Church in itself, I think--in the years from the controversial, extra-canonical ordination of the Philadelphia Eleven to the joyous ordination of New York's Magnificent Seven, we have come a long way.

And miles to go before we sleep.

And miles to go before we sleep.

God bless the Church; there's life in the old girl yet!



(Widor himself is at the organ in the clip.)