Three things this week;
1. It was suggested to me this week by someone friendly with diocesan powers, someone who wishes to one day bask in the illumination of glory that is a diocesan house, that if I were willing to become a part-time rector my congregation would be able to give the diocese more money.
2. My wife, who has, save for a brief interruption when she worked in another state, been a member of our current diocese since 1984, had major surgery three weeks ago [as a brain aneurysm survivor, every surgery is major], and was just released from the rehab clinic on Saturday after spending two weeks learning how to use her new hip. She has yet to receive a visit, phone call, or note from any of the three full-time bishops of the diocese.
3. The new paradigm for priests is to be bi-vocational, according to the uni-vocational bishops.
The center, as Yeats noted, cannot hold.