[Magdalen] Need to blow off steam

[Molly Wolf]

I think a lot of my frustration comes from having hung around this diocese for the last 28 years without witnessing the slightest inclination that maybe, just maybe, we need to stop being church and start being the Body of Christ.  The Diocese of Ontario is as hidebound as it gets.  And I am terminally fed up.

As I thought to myself after this meeting, which was too soon after Diocesan Synod: "Is there anything here that I could take to my kids and say, 'here, maybe you should give church a chance'?"  Nope.  Nada.  Nothing.

Oh well.  The Kingdom of God goes on, regardless.  And for the time being, I have a lovely little church for my Vespers worship, and two good madres, and some people I'm fond of.  But I'm outta all church committees, right promptly.  Like choir, they are bad for my serenity.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Oct 26, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>> At least she wanted you for your voice, but the reality is that
>> congregations need support within the ranks as well, so yours is the right
>> choice both on a personal level and for the congregation, I think.
> 
> I've latched on to a new technique: "I'm not taking on anything new at
> church until I'm no longer the webmaster, because the website
> generates enough work by itself." I've also told the rector I'd like
> to give the website to a new webmaster by April 1, 2015.
> 
> Today the head MC asked if I'd like to be trained as an MC. I'll think
> about it but have the tool described above to use if needed. I no
> longer have the "I don't want to learn a new way to annoy the rector"
> angle. Our new rector is far less annoyable.
> 
> Although today as subdeacon, I sort of heard myself sounding like an
> MC when the celebrant (not the rector) after Communion asked me to get
> the water cruet and pour some into something. I said, "I will, after
> you finish consuming what's in the chalice." Meow!
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA