Word: schlueter
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...about his celibacy. They hooted at the black cassock and big wooden cross he always wore as a member of the Society of Oblates of Mount Calvary. They sneaked into the parish house when his back was turned and smashed up the furniture. But tall, handsome Reverend Edward Henry Schlueter (rhymes with Peter) kept his stubborn smile and quietly got on with the job: bringing back to life his broken-down appendage of Manhattan's rich Trinity Church...
Convinced that a parish is made of people, rather than of bricks, Father Schlueter always opened St. Luke's door with an equal welcome - for the dirtiest urchin, the haughtiest dowager, the most troubled atheist. He turned his big Connecticut farm into a camp for poor children, and the neighborhood toughs, beginning to suspect their own toughness, went off and spent whole summers there. His study became familiar to hundreds, for he had a knack for easing people's troubles...
Last week, with 35 years and three months of work behind him, Father Schlueter retired from St. Luke's. Now white-haired and plump, he said that his age (67) and poor health had taken him into "the golden evening" of his life. He wanted to devote that evening to preaching missions and conducting retreats...
...Luke's at all. There was nothing much to prove it: just a new gymnasium and a handful of fruit trees he himself had planted (last year's crop: two apples, twelve cherries). But St. Luke's parishioners, if no one else, knew what Father Schlueter had done: that he had lived among them as a simple...