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Dedication

For

Hans Küng

presbyter, prophet

and pilot of the Church

This book grew out of an ordination retreat in December 2004 at the Wapiti Wilderness Retreat, Maryland for those preparing for ordination in the Diocese of Pennsylvania

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying,

‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’

Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me.’

Isaiah 6.8

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face,

as one speaks to a friend.

Exodus 33.11

Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?

Will you come and follow me and never be the same?

‘The Summons’, John L. Bell and Graham Maule, Celebration Hymnal for Everyone, McCrimmons, 1994

A better preest, I trowe that nowher noon is.

He waited after no pompe and reverence,

Ne maked him a spyced conscience;

But Cristes lore, and his Apostles twelve,

He taughte, but first followed it hymselve.

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Parson’s Tale’ from The Canterbury Tales

I had stood at the foot of a huge north wall and knew unquestionably that I could climb it, that I was strong enough and good enough, and knew as certainly as I had ever known anything that this is exactly where I should be and what I should do. It seemed wonderfully irrational and ludicrously egotistical. It needed no justification, no rationale.

It had to be done, and done well, and nothing more.

Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, Vintage, 1994