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Show 3?! Sf· MESSAGE # 16 June-July, 1974 from Father Liebler Helen sturges Brother Juniper Joan Eske11 at t HAT ROCK VALLEY RE'l'REAT CENTER 3D f."O. Box 5, Monument Valley, Utah 31f-fl:- -H \ 84536 "" I \ 'S"k + + .f ' DI "+ 72.. ~ - ~..,'1 + + ~ + + ~ ! ' bee· I f{- Me~sages 1 - 15 peEe issued at:- I/approxi- 4JF mately semn-annual periods since September, 1966. Many of the back numbers are available to persons wanting then"l. Just ask. * .. .. .. Yes, we are defying all precedents by issuing this #16 so soon after # 15, but readers will recall that in #15 we had nothing from Joan Eskell and we Photo by Dr Robert Liebler made you a promise that she'd get a lot of space in the ensuing number-- 'so, here it<. is. I'm not saving the letters I get saying "We want more ,Joan" "Why doesn't she give us more" and the like. So ••• the rest of us are ~eping silent~ as she did in our #15. But we must share with you our experience on Easter Day. The Bishop of Utah, The Rt Rev E. otis Charles, D.D. and the Reverend Herbert Scott, Vicar of st Christopher's Mission, were with us at the morning service. The church building was well filled before Mass began--and overfilled soon after. After the fore-~ass, the Bishop sat in a chair in the middle of . the center aisle, and talked very simply, but clearly, to the people. His similes, taken from everyday experience on the desert, could not have been mare aptly chosen by a desert-dweller. He turned to Fr Liebler, and said "Would you interpret, please?" Not easy, he tells us, but he did a fair job. Those who were to be confirmed had cards with their names; each one knelt before the Bishop, he took the candidate's head between his hands and prayed extemporaneously--in each prayer there was a reference to the candidate's name, its Biblical significance or other meaning--something which personalized the ceremony as nothing else could have done. All understood enough English so--no interpretation. At the end of each extempore prayer, the Bishop signed the candidate with the hOly Chrism, the candidate arose and another took his place • . The singing was inspiring and inspired, both in the liturgical chant and t he hymns. We closed with the now well-beloved "Praise The Lord" i n Navajo, to a familiar tune. You should have been there! On Friday in Easter week three of us had the great pleasure of hearing The Keyhole Singers, f rom the Chur ch of The Redeemer in Houston, Texas-They sang at st Barnabas' Church, Cortez, Colorado. If they come anywhere near you, DON'T MISS THEM. Why not try to get them? You'll never regret itl And now to surrender the podium to Joan--pictured above with one of her dogs, Gimli (the Dwarf) by name. |
