Ash Wednesday at the clinic

It is different being in a non-church setting and listening in on the secular/church world.  This is a good thing for me... the priest without a collar... the one who does not see the highlight of Lent as endless Friday fish fries.  I sit at lunch and offer an occasional opinion, ask a question now and then.

On Monday

The women around the lunch table

Discussed fasting,

How they love the fish fries

Put on by the Knights of Columbus:

All you can eat

Every Friday.

On Monday

The women around the lunch table

Talked about Lent

Being only forty days.

They listed

The best places

To get ashes.

Today is the Wednesday meal

At the clinic:

All

You care to eat.