[Magdalen] Two to go

[Catharine Phillips]

Holy Week on the sidelines (in the pew) has taken a few years to figure out
"how to do" (since 2008).but now I am starting to get the "hang" of it. Has
only taken 7 or 8 years. :)

Blessings,
Catharine

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I love being subdeacon.  However, it all gets busy in our very
> understaffed little outpost.  Tonight I am deacon/bookbearer, but the subd.
> will switch with me in the moment because I'm also Gospeller and preacher.
> Glenn the Music is meant to chant the Exsultet, but he has a coughy cold
> and so I've been refreshing my memory in that regard.  (Our departed priest
> did it himself -- he really wasn't good at sharing.)  I have a stuffy
> nose/head, since last w/e, so who know which one of us it will be.    If I
> do it, I think I won't, as planned, chant the Gospel , being sensitive to
> what I would call 'Marion fatigue' out there.  I've already handed off the
> Genesis reading for tonight (scheduling done months in advance sometimes
> doesn't work on the day).  In short, I am happy never to spend time in the
> pews, but I do wonder  how it must be to have the freedom to be away
> without guilt.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 4/4/2015 9:37 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> Trying not to grumble, but I really would rather not have had to serve
>> as subdeacon for every single service during the Triduum. That's where
>> two of our regular subdeacons have left us, though, by going away
>> angry over the staff changes. And another has been recovering from
>> surgery (the nerve!). Not backbreaking work by any means, but a lot of
>> time and a feeling of "too much church." Would also love to worship
>> from a pew once.
>>
>> There. I feel like I can grumble here so I won't grumble there. :)
>> Thanks...off to Saturday morning rehearsal for this evening's Vigil.
>>
>>
>


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*Catharine Phillips, MA, MDiv, CADC*


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