SEVENTEEN
Father Ambrose Grace genuflected in front of the altar and made the sign of the cross before rising. With the onset of arthritis, he could feel as a result of his advancing years the aches and pains in his joints grew evermore evident whenever he had to bend or kneel down, but he treated them as the minor ailments they were, with god’s grace.
During his time in the priesthood, Father Grace had visited several hundred parishioners on their deathbeds in order to administer some much-needed comfort and solace along with the final rites. He had seen at first hand the agony and suffering some of his flock had had to suffer before god called them to his mercy, so he was forever grateful that to date, his greatest affliction was merely in the form of a relatively mild case of the bone
