“Mornings began with a chorus of robins and settled in to a melodious, free-form but regular cadence of wrens, sparrows, meadowlarks, blackbirds, and goldfinches. That orchestra has now changed; its music more constricted;…

“In Christian worship, in the Episcopalian tradition, the Eucharistic Host is received in one’s hands, palms up and together. The gesture in the parking lot seemed as if it were allowing some harbinger…