[Magdalen] Two to go

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/04/2015 17:08, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Acolytes have always done all that "subdeacon" stuff in every parish I've
> ever been in. Am I hopelessly low church? If so, I'll take it.
>
> I had to smother a laugh the last Sunday I was reading at Reformation
> Lutheran....after the offering was received, the assisting minister
> produced a bottle of hand sanitizer from somewhere behind the altar,
> availed herself of it, and handed it to the pastor, who used it and handed
> it back. Some ablutions! It was all done so nobody could see it unless they
> were close up, but readers usually sit next to the organist throughout the
> service....which is interesting, because you get in on various amusing
> happenings.

Yesterday we wnet past the nave altar to venerate the cross in front of 
the high altar and I noticed the hand sanitizer on the credence table 
ready for the communion of the pre-sanctified.

Roger