[Magdalen] Parish in crisis, was Re: Some Christmas music

[Georgia DuBose]

This sounds like a flaming nightmare. If the Bishop has not been involved,
why not? David Cobb is a spiritual giant in this denomination (maybe that
is the problem for some of the pygmies) and it sounds like the "Save
Ascension" group is actually the "Destroy Ascension" group. They need to
get over their tiny selves.

OMMV,

Georgia+

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Marion Thompson
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Worshipping a moment in time like a fly entombed in amber for all time.
> So
> > sad, so destructive.
>
> Very true. And the thing is, it's not like the first time change has
> happened in the parish liturgy, and even now the changes have not
> amounted to anything like a dismantling of our Catholic heritage, as
> they claim. And guess what: some of the stalwart, orthodox, Catholic
> rectors of the past made momentous changes themselves. One gradually
> instituted the non-communicating High Mass (if you want Communion, go
> to 8 o'clock) and another accepted the rector job only on condition
> that non-communicating Masses be done away with. The rector in the 70s
> embraced the review process for the eventual 1979 BCP, having the
> parish try the green book and zebra book and submit lots of feedback,
> having Rite I for a month and Rite II for a month, settling on Rite II
> but with Rite I congregational settings of the Mass. There was
> probably upheaval when the church was reordered and the choir sent to
> the west gallery. Or when gas lighting was put in and then when
> electric ones arrived.
>
> Change happens! And it is usually not all-disruptive, and it can be
> embraced. The Save Ascension group really seems bent on a
> scorched-earth approach to getting 100% of its own way: rehire the
> organist and choirmaster Fr. Cobb dismissed, do everything the way it
> was done when they were on the staff, and we'll all be happy. Will
> anyone be in the pews, though?
>
> O Wisdom, who came from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end
> to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly: come, and teach
> us the way of prudence.
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8-xOvFeCK6aOGMzNDc0NjAtZDg1MS00NWFlLTkxNjEtZWJjNmZmN2Q2NTBk
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>