[Magdalen] PRS Advent 1

[Grace Cangialosi]

Funny story along those lines:
Some years ago a woman in a church where I was serving as organist came up
after the service and introduced herself as "Sir Frances Johnson, Mayor of
Madison."  I thought that rather odd, but I was new to Virginia, and I
thought maybe all mayors were given the title "Sir."  A few months later I
was seated across from her at a Lenten luncheon, and I got up the nerve to
ask about it.  I said something like, "I've been wondering about your
title. Are all mayors in Virginia referred to as "'Sir'?"  She looked
startled for a minute and then burst out laughing.  "Oh," she said, "That's
my flat-talking way again--I need to be more careful!  It's *Sa*-rah, *Sa-*rah
Frances!"

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 01/12/2015 00:07, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>
>> So these are now lady Lords? Talk about gender-bending!  ;^}
>>
>
> I understand that Bishop Rachel sent back the original Writ of Summons to
> take her seat in the House of Lords (which has included female Peers for
> some time) because it called her a Right Reverend Father in God.  This was
> amended to Bishop.
>
> There is also the lovely trivia question "Which married couple are both
> Dukes?"  The answer is the Queen (who is Duke of Lancaster, a title always
> held by the monarch) who is married to Prince Philip, Guke of Edinburgh.
>
> Roger
>



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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*We must cry out against injustice or by our silence consent to it.
Dorothy Day*