My Priest Told Me: Comments

In HAMLET when a priest refuses sacred service and burial for Ophelia, that beautiful maiden and victim of male machinations (Tsvetaeva put this in a poem!) , her grieving brother cries out, CHURLISH PRIEST, AN ANGEL SHALL MY SISTER BE! Amen to that. You are absolutely right in affirming Michael Laitman as YOUR SPIRITUAL GUIDE. After all, Jesus was a Jew; HE chose to be incarnated as a Jew. For Christ's sake, affirm that Judaic connection. Here's a poignant story about this issue: My mother's very best friend was Doris, who was a Lutheran. She died tragically young of cancer and my mom was devastated to lose her friend. I sat at my mother's side in the rectory of Nativity Church when te priest told my mom he would allow her to go to Doris's funeral in the Lutheran Church but she could not pray with them for her friend's soul. I sat next to her at that Lutheran service and she cried softly all through it. But at the very end the minister said, Now we will say the Lord's Prayer for our beloved Doris. My mom looked at me with a helpless expression when the people said OUR FATHER but she joined them with WHO ART IN HEAVEN to the end. And in that consolation of community prayer her tears stopped flowing. That is the truth of religion. For Christ's sake let the prayers ascend to heaven. The road to heaven is NOT Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox, Judaic, Vedanta, Zen. No it's one huge path on which all of these other paths converge. And God looks with favor on his faithful and loving servant, Michael Laitman.