| Letters from the week of 20 to 26 July 2015
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All in apostolic succession
Don't forget you were brought into the church of The Apostolic Succession as he was when your Bishop layed hands on you in Confirmation - of course the Priest who Baptized you also shares in this—a wonderful essence of our tradition!
Br. Franklin OPA
Christ Church Cathedral
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
franklin.kline@sbcglobal.net
20 July 2015
This letter is not an aquaduct
While studying ancient history in Italy as an undergraduate, our group was scheduled to tour some underground aqueducts that had accesses on the property of a church a bit north of Rome. We were hot, tired, and frankly ready to be done. The prospect of crawling in aqueducts kept us going.
When we arrived, however, the custodian couldn’t help himself from showing us every relic that the parish possessed. Our hapless professor tried to translate but was clearly giving us an extremely abbreviated version. Eventually we settled on playing the “not an aqueduct” game, which is to say we tried to list everything we had seen that was not an aqueduct.
We did eventually see what we came for, but the letter certainly helped me reflect a little more generously on the custodian’s enthusiasm for relics than did my younger, considerably more fed up with a hot day self.
Benjamin Hicks
Christ Church
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
26 July 2015
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