My prayers are with you as well.
Your story reminds me of my experience today visiting some of the members of my church in a local nursing home. Now that I am a part-time seminarian (on top of being a full time lawyer, husband, father, etc.) I wear a collar when I am visiting people on behalf of the church. Once in awhile, people call me "Father" but since many times my family is with me, they figure out I'm not Roman Catholic. Today at this nursing home, everyone was going out of their way to call me "Father" from the nurses to staff to the people who live there, so I was beginning to wonder. Finally, I walked past the bulletin board, and I saw on their schedule that it was about time for their weekly Catholic mass to start, so I think they thought I was there to fill in! I finally corrected one of the staff and tried to politely explain I am Lutheran and was simply there to visit a few people from my church.
Your story reminds me of my experience today visiting some of the members of my church in a local nursing home. Now that I am a part-time seminarian (on top of being a full time lawyer, husband, father, etc.) I wear a collar when I am visiting people on behalf of the church. Once in awhile, people call me "Father" but since many times my family is with me, they figure out I'm not Roman Catholic. Today at this nursing home, everyone was going out of their way to call me "Father" from the nurses to staff to the people who live there, so I was beginning to wonder. Finally, I walked past the bulletin board, and I saw on their schedule that it was about time for their weekly Catholic mass to start, so I think they thought I was there to fill in! I finally corrected one of the staff and tried to politely explain I am Lutheran and was simply there to visit a few people from my church.
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