Dean

The Three Musketeers discuss the Sabbath and rest from their labors.

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Bill the Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, shown here with Monsignor Pat (pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception) and Rabbi Michael (Reform rabbi from Congregation Beth Israel) meet as a clergy group which I have dubbed the Three Musketeers. Once a year they gather to give a talk to their combined congregations. Tonight the subject was Sabbath.

Rabbi Michael took us all the way back to Genesis, and then to the Ten Commandments.
Monsignor Pat talked about the mass as a combination of Holy Thursday (the Last Supper), Good Friday, and Easter.
Bill the Dean gave us a little church history lesson, from the Early Church to the formation of the Church of England. He emphasized the idea of being sent forth from the Eucharist to bring Sabbath into the world.

Clockwise from upper left:
Bill the Dean teases Monsignor Pat;
Bill the Dean talking with his hands;
Bill the Dean listens to a conversation between Monsignor Pat and Mary Anne the new priest (the papers Mary Anne is holding are a chapter from my novel!);
Rabbi Michael, Bill the Dean, and Monsignor Pat share a jocular moment. (There were many of those.)

It just did my heart good to see these clergypersons enjoying one another's companionship, scholarship, and faith.

How good and pleasant it is
for brothers to dwell together in unity!
— Psalm 133