[Magdalen] Education.

[Kristin Rollins]

No. I _think_ it's more about not putting people on the spot, especially
if they may have their donations paid electronically. It is unobtrusive.
There is the visual reminder of it being there, but no attention is
drawn to it.

It isn't the choice I would make, but the result isn't as bad as I had
imagined when I first heard about it.

Kristin

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  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Portsmouth, VA

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 10:50 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
> That's weird. Like an admission fee?
> 
> We had a hapless canvasser who suggested people calculate the price of
> each communion and pledge that amount weekly.
> -M
> 
> On Thursday, December 3, 2015, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > the offering plates are no longer brought forward at that point in the
> > service. (Rather than being passed around, they sit on a table at the
> > front of the aisle, where people can place their offerings in them as
> > the move forward to receive communion, and then they are brought to the
> > altar after everybody has received communion
> >