Spiritual caregivers: Beyond physical healing – Salt Lake Tribune

For 22 years, Lincoln Ure, an Episcopal priest, has been the clinical pastoral education supervisor at St. Mark’s Hospital, the one site in Utah that offers the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) training. Succeeding as a chaplain, Ure explained, “takes some serious internal work.”

Father Linc spent some time with Mom and with the rest of our spiritually divergent family while Mom was at St Mark’s. He was such a good sport when she was throwing us out one by one – offered to go in and be thrown out, too. She was sorta cranky that one night but she had one more good morning before things started to go downhill.  Father Linc came around a lot because he was acquainted with my sister and brother-in-law.

He’s an amazing chaplain and gives so much of himself – I attended two Wednesday services conducted by him at the hospital while in Salt Lake, before and after Mom died, and frankly I couldn’t have coped otherwise (as my poor family knows). The services are attended mostly by staff and people in the ACPE program, and they were short but intense little Rite III Eucharists that really “fed” the little congregation and recharged their spiritual batteries.

Go Father Linc!

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