We go through a lot of priest at our military community. Our full-time priest is currently deployed. When that happens we have a host of retired and temporary priests to fill in.
We’ve had a Polish priest for the last few weeks. He had been stationed at Eglin AFB and served for us at the end of his stay in this area.
He always includes old jokes in his talks and tonight his joke included a comment about the length of a sermon. There was a farewell dinner for him after mass and he went to the kitchen before mass and said it smelled good. He hinted that he might make his sermon real short so he could eat sooner. The funny thing was that he did make it short – 7 1/2 minutes – and when he finished he was laughing but genuinely embarrassed. He commented that he might need to go to confession for the brief homily.
He finished his last mass with us by singing the last verse of the post communion song. He really has a good voice too.
He leaves us today-goes to see his mother- then goes to Germany followed by a 6-month deployment. They never tell us where the deployment is.
That’s just the way it is in a military diocese.
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