[Magdalen] Ginga's bishop

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jay, that sounds like so much fun!

When I was in Kentucky in an Appalachian ministry summer program for seminarians, each person in the program took a morning worship session. The idea was to do something from their tradition. One of the faculty members decided to do a Baptist-style service with some of the hymns you mentioned, and she asked me to play the piano.
Well, the place really rocked, and afterwards one of the Southern Baptist women came up to me and said, "Boy, you don't play the piano like any Episcopalian I ever heard!"
I took that as high praise... 

> On Oct 10, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ginga, the "bluegrass mass" wasn't that complicated. We did happen to have
> a musician who played for us on certain Sundays who was gifted with guitar
> and banjo, but we had a couple of other guitarists including my late ex,
> and I filled in on vocals and tambourine. The congregation knew all the
> songs; I always said when we did that stuff we sounded like a bunch of
> Baptists at camp meeting. We did "I'll Fly Away" and "I Saw the Light" as
> well as "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" and IIRC "Blessed Assurance"
> which are not technically bluegrass but can sure be grassed up.
> Sanctus/Benedictus were done to "Land of Rest" which is found in LEVAS. If
> you have a congregation that likes to sing and knows these standards or
> similar ones, and you have or can find the instrumentalists, you are good
> to go. Bp. Charlie was definitely having a good time. I don't think he was
> expecting it but then not much of anyone ever expected St. Barnabas in
> those days.
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Will do!
>> 
>> Ginga
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ginga,
>>> Try watching "Cottonpatch Gospel" as a family Vmovie night (with popcorn,
>>> of course). Bluegrass music by Harry Chapin and wonderful re telling of
>> the
>>> Gospel story
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 9, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sure y'all needed a knowledge of music to choose.  We have a
>>>> tambourine, thanks to the congregation from whom we rent, and we've
>> used
>>> it
>>>> on occasion when we're doing special music.  We have excellent voices
>> in
>>>> our choir, but no one has thought of bluegrass mass yet.  No banjo
>> picker
>>>> that I know.
>>>> 
>>>> Ginga
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> He sure did! And we enjoyed doing it. Not often you have a banjo AND
>>>>> tambourine in an Episcopal (or Episcopal-Lutheran) church!
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> That sounds joyful, Jay. I bet everyone enjoyed it.
>>>>>> Ginga
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Bp. Charlie is pretty darn cool. We used to do a "bluegrass mass"
>> for
>>>>> him
>>>>>>> at St. Barnabas when he visited. He loved it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com
>>> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Wow!  Thanks for the news, Grace. Bp vonRosenberg is a very kind
>> and
>>>>>> good
>>>>>>>> man.  We are so fortunate that he is at the SC helm.  Annie
>>>>>> vonRosenberg
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>> just wonderful.    I hope you told them about our email lists...and
>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> the good folk here saved my spiritual and emotional health over the
>>>>>> years
>>>>>>>> of the schism.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hope you had a good time at Convocation.  Our Priest-in-Charge was
>>>>>> there
>>>>>>>> celebrating his 50th anniversary of graduating.  The Rev. Al Votaw
>> -
>>>>>> he's
>>>>>>>> just as good and gifted as the vonRosenbergs.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Ginga
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Grace Cangialosi <
>> gracecan at gmail.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I was at Virginia Seminary the past couple of days for my 25-year
>>>>>> class
>>>>>>>>> reunion and got talking with a woman who turned out to be
>>>>> Rosenberg's
>>>>>>>> wife.
>>>>>>>>> I told her how happy folks were to have him there and mentioned
>>>>> Ginga
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> their new little congregation. I repeated my comment about how
>>>>> happy
>>>>>>>> folks
>>>>>>>>> are to have him, and she said, "Well, he's right behind you, so
>> you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>>>>> tell him!"  So I did! What a lovely man! He had very kind words
>> for
>>>>>>> Ginga
>>>>>>>>> and the members of Good Shepherd.
>>