“Don't be sorry for yourself because you are going to so remote a parish. Be sorry for the Indians. You know nothing and they must teach you,” is a quote by Margaret Craven in her book I Heard the Owl Call my Name. It is the story of a priest who is sent to Alaska to minister to a Native Tribe because the archbishop knows that he does not have long to live. In the book all sorts of wonderful observations are made, some about leaving and being unable to come back, some about purpose of life, and some about religion. Rereading the book when I know how it is going to end makes it so I end up skim reading when that first time I sat down and only put it down when it was over. I remember the shock I had at the ending and the sorrow for a fictional
