Christine Lee works on social media for the Diocese of Taiwan. After Sunday services at St. John’s Cathedral in Taipei, she told me that, when I leaned to one side in the pulpit, I looked like Gru from “Despicable Me.“

O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

— Book of Common Prayer