Well, it’s all over – the ordination and the first 2 services as a priest. The ordination was amazing. I have some great friends who made a great effort to get to the service. I appreciated all the people that made an effort to get there. And I missed everyone that couldn’t make it for some reason or another.
Today was an interesting experience. Doing my new job in some aspects is very easy – it’s what I’m called to do and it all comes very naturally. On the other hand, it’s a weird experience – to have the responsibility of blessing people – that’s my big one. How did I get authority to do this??? I gave the blessing to 3 couples for their anniversary and 1 birthday. Amazing.
Doing the Eucharistic Prayer is also an interesting experience. Because I’ve done it before in play church – but totally different today. Somewhere along the chalice part of the story, I was suddenly struck by the fact that I was really doing it…
Amazing. Time for bed.
Posted by Heather Voss at August 22, 2004 09:28 PMMother(?) Heather ~~
Congratulations ... I'm so very happy for you. If I had known you were being ordained, I would have been there ... but, at least blogging helps to keep me in touch somewhat.
I know what you mean about doing your job can be a 'weird' experience. Although I'm not ordained (yet), recently having parishioners describe me to the medical team at a hospital as their clergy person brought back memories of CPE the first time I put on the 'chaplain' ID.
Hope to see you around one of these days.
J