[Magdalen] "leaving church" was -->Re: Prayer request

[Roger Stokes]

On 28/04/2015 19:46, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> I've found this subject personally relevant and interesting (where 
> it's gone beyond Molly's request) as last Sunday, I whiled away an 
> hour after church talking to a couple who were good friends at my 
> 'former church (of 22 years)" - one of those rip roaring 'parking lot 
> conversations'.

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> I think this priest will probably be there a long time, as his 
> personality, shall we say, may be a deterrent to search committees who 
> might come calling.

That is a real issue.  If a priest is in the wrong place for them then 
they are not going to "do a good job" and be attractive to those seeking 
a new priest.  Ubless they are called elsewhere getting rid of them is 
traumatic for everybody - assuming there is a canonical way of giving 
them the push.

> sigh
> Lynn
> ps. in the Living Church photos, I realized he has completely replaced 
> the simple and meaningful wooden altar furnishings originally designed 
> for this church(very sentimental to this very contemporarily designed 
> church building) with ornately carved altar, pulpit, 
> priest/assistant's chairs and marble walkway up the aisle to altar 
> area (elevated and formerly carpeted, and now marble, which I 
> understand a number of adult readers and LEMS have slipped on and some 
> fallen, since they were installed) and the very pricey, very large 
> Icons he had 'written' for behind the altar, hung at a 20' elevation 
> (I thought Icons were made to be looked at/into when using as a 
> prayer/meditation aid?) .

Gurnishings and architecture need to work together.  You are right about 
the icons - they are an invitation to private prayer.

Roger