An e-mail:

I’ve been attending Father Rutler’s meditations and prayers based on “The Seven Words” for I believe 16 consecutive years — first in the downtrodden St Agnes on 43rd st in the pre-Giuliani days with vagrants, then in the Waldorf Ballroom while St Agnes was rehabbed after the fire, now in the magnificent Byzantium inspired Church of Our Savior. Every year this day with Father Rutler has the effect of making my temporal existence feel so small and G_d so great. I can’t really explain it, but the feeling lasts for months right up to Christmas, and then after the 1st of the following year, the feeling begins to fade and I then crave the spiritual nourishment of this day finding Christ in me with Father Rutler’s help.And then when I go out into the familiar surroundings of midtown, I somehow see the world differently. Easter Day makes me smile, because it helps me remember this day with Father Rutler.