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After the ordination, Means' friends gathered in celebration around a motel bar. "It was a fantastic event," said Richard Pelley, a neighbor who provided homemade wine for the service. "She's worked like hell to get here under some of the worst conditions." Remarked the new priest's husband Delton, "Being a truck driver I've been associated with women drivers before, so it's not really so new." Then he added: "I'm tickled pink...
...next morning 75 people gathered at All Saints', a racially mixed inner-city parish, as Means for the first time celebrated Communion, and Rector John Eastwood pleaded for the flock to be charitable. His concern stemmed from vocal opposition to his new priest, and the fact that ten people out of a parish membership of 150 have resigned in protest. Some of Means' opponents are alienated by her. aggressive, mildly profane style. (She will, for example, say "Oh Jesus" on occasion.) Other parishioners disapprove of ordaining women on principle. But many members are delighted. Said Sarah Mallory...
...probably be the last person you'd expect to be ordained," says the informal and modest new priest, who likes to be called Jackie. Born in Peoria, Ill., to a traveling salesman and his wife, both of whom became alcoholics, she attended Catholic schools wherever her father took the family. She dropped out at 16 to marry Delton. The couple settled in Indianapolis, joined the Episcopal Church and raised four children...
...preferred to assemble their work from segments of wood pinned and jointed together. The Japanese, who did most to develop this method, called it yosegi. In this show, the masterpiece of the technique, borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is a late 13th century Zen carving of a priest, the Hoto Kokushi (literally, Lamp-of-the-Law National Teacher) Muhon Kakushin...
...ones remain in their temples and are the most sacred of cult objects. The Zen master sits in the lotus position on a plain bench; his robe falls almost to the ground; a pair of empty slippers fit below its hem. Its spread belies the slenderness of the old priest, who was probably about 80 when the likeness was made. His face is all parchment and bone. The prow of a nose and the jutting underlip have a fierce antique gravity, like Renaissance portrait sculpture-one thinks of the faces of Verrocchio's Colleoni or Donatello's Gattamelata...