[Magdalen] Two to go

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/04/2015 15:28, Marion Thompson 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.

I am getting used to the different perspective just as I about to start 
on some supply work around the diocese.  After tomorrow I have just two 
Sundays free to attend my local church before flapping my wings and 
heading West again on June.

Roger