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Have a taste in the middle of the Chelsea, New York Incorporated town block of the Not particular Theological Place of education lies the Chapel of the Advantageous Shepherd. Charles, Scott and I all attended that college — as did the son of the first prelate of Vermont, John Henry Hopkins, Jr. Our lives were informed by that chapel, whose neighborhood dominates the block up between 9th and 10th Avenues and 21st and 20th Streets, a shut up which seminarians call ‘the Shut’ and it can get that way sometimes.

The chapel is a fine example of slow 19th-century Of the goths architecture, covenant in footprint but stirring in stature. The stained glass windows, grove-carvings of the stalls and fourth part of an acre screen, marble sacrificial structure, and mosaic floors charm the eye and provide a worshipper in that extension imagery to go along with the music and language heard within. If one so desires, one can go to First blush of the morning Prayer, Communion, Evensong (Usage I) and Compline every day. That according to rule Benedictine regular movement of worship becomes a accurate piece of production and, in my case, has carried me, at least in recollection, for 15 years of ordained interposition.

Above the altar is a fourth part of an acre screen in whose midst is a statue of the Good Herdsman, Jesus. He gently looks down at the young sheep in his arms who looks back up at him. In his left palm and fingers, he holds a alloy of copper and zinc staff, clearly a prelate’s crozier in touching. At his right side sits a young sheep looking out to the meeting. During my days at Not special, a small statue of the Damsel Mary was tucked behind the large statue, a reminder of another momentous person in the history (!).

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