0015 'Infectious Holiness'..

Read the newspapers from the back to the front, instead and joy can catch you unawares obituaries: all too often you just wish you could have known them when they were alive and glorious.. maybe there's a place for a special service of celebration, memorial, honour for all those who read their obituary and wished they'd known them..so get together in their honour in the hope that something happens.. here's Murray Rogers, died at 89, went from Britain to India to Jerusalem to Hong Kong to the Mohawks of Ontario to Oxford... and described as 'a priest of infectious holiness'.. just imagine - you met him by accident one fine day, and next thing you know, you've caught - well, they're waiting to see whether it's a mild case, give it time, maybe severe or even, terminal.. a bit like around this time of year, popping into a pub in Bethlehem or that place just outside the Temple which is the equivalent of Speakers' Corner or doing a bit of fishing just off the shore of Galilee... these public places are a hotbed of infection at this time of year infectious holiness