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So today is the 232nd birthday of the United States Marine Corps. It is also the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. <\/em>And yes, it would have been my sixth wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n Let me tell you what’s happening in this picture.<\/p>\n Sarah’s godmother, Anne Louise, performed the second reading, from 1 Corinthians: “The greatest of these is love.” While she was reading, Father Murphy sat down in a chair in an alcove next to the altar. He bowed his head and closed his eyes. Was he praying?<\/p>\n Anne Louise finished the reading. She stepped down from the dais and took her seat.<\/p>\n There was silence. Father Murphy didn’t move.<\/p>\n In the picture, Sarah is looking at me and whispering through her smile, “Honey? Ut the hell do we do now?”<\/p>\n I was trying hard not to laugh. Without moving my lips, I murmured, “I think it’s the best man’s responsibility to wake up the priest.”<\/p>\n Luckily, the organist was on the ball. He played a little filler music, maybe goosed the volume just a little on the coda, and Father Murphy woke up and continued with the ceremony.<\/p>\n I’ll never know if he was really asleep, or just deep in meditation. But this picture always makes me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So today is the 232nd birthday of the United States Marine Corps. It is also the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And yes, it would have been my sixth wedding anniversary. Let me tell you what’s happening in this picture. Sarah’s godmother, Anne Louise, performed the second reading, from 1 Corinthians: … Continue reading Wake up<\/span>