Dear Editor: With the death of Father Benedict Groeschel, a memory of him and what I once heard him say came to mind.

I had driven a young priest, visiting from France, who had an appointment to appear on his show at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie. I sat and watched as the show was taped. Father Groeschel told of a Protestant minister who had visited his church, and during the time that he (Father Groeschel) showed him around, he genuflected each time as he passed the Eucharist in the tabernacle.

Then the minister asked, “Why do you do that?”

Father Groeschel explained “…the Living Presence.”

Then the minister replied, “If I believed that, I would get down on my knees and never get up.”

Perhaps, we can better tolerate the gift we have been given by focusing on that and not so much on the efforts of those who invariably are volunteers singing.

THOMAS C. CULLINANE
Bayside