[Magdalen] Two to go

[Marion Thompson]

We don't have a Deacon /per se/  (although we might have had if the 
priest's departure in 2009 hadn't stopped the process in its tracks , 
never to be revived), but we use the titles and the vestments.  
Subdeacon sets the table, does half the rail, and ablutions.
Interestingly, our interim priest is treating me as a deacon.  I now 
proclaim the Gospel and get to do the Dismissal.  Such a change from 
previously.

Marion, a pilgrim


  4/4/2015 10:57 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> There has to be a subdeacon for a liturgy to be solemn. The celebrant,
> deacon, and subdeacon move as a group, and deacon and subdeacon assist the
> celebrant in some fairly unnecessary ways. :) Subdeacon chants the epistle,
> helps the deacon set the altar for the offertory, and administers the
> chalice along half of thw communion rail. If they had to do without,  the
> deacon and MC could cover things, but it would look incomplete. Or the
> service could turn into a sung high Mass rather than a solemn high one. No
> deacon or subdeacon required for that.
> On Apr 4, 2015 9:36 AM, "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm showing my ignorance of Anglo-Catholic liturgy here, Scott, since I'm
>> not even sure what a subdeacon does, but does there have a to be a
>> subdeacon at every service? Couldn't you sit out a service or two, since
>> you're the only one?
>>   I know we are sometimes short a position or two--LEM or acolyte, etc., and
>> we either draft someone or do without, and the service doesn't suffer. And,
>> of course, most of our churches don't have deacons at all, except during
>> that "transition" time after seminary graduations.
>> Just wondering...
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Grace Cangialosi
>> Ruckersville, VA
>>
>> It's a good thing Mary didn't have to wait for a Doctrine of the
>> Incarnation
>> before she said "Yes" to God.
>>
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