[Magdalen] Need to blow off steam

[James Oppenheimer]

Maybe you should write this to the folks who lead.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> 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
>