Psalm 103:1-13
Year A
In 2013, the novelist Ann Patchett toured a homeless mission in Nashville, Tennessee, with Father Charlie Stroble. Patchett’s essay, “The Worthless Servant,” describes how Stroble’s ministry to the unhoused began after he, as a young priest, answered a knock on his rectory’s door — one of a dozen men sheltering in the church’s parking lot, looking for something to eat. Stroble, recognizing that the...
