[Magdalen] Some Christmas music

Eleanor Braun eleanor.braun at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 22:50:08 UTC 2015


What Marion said.

It is heartbreaking that the bishop is absent and silent.

Eleanor

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> My heart goes out to you and your parish, Scott.
>
> Worshipping a moment in time like a fly entombed in amber for all time.
> So sad, so destructive.
>
> Marion
>
>
> On 12/17/2015 9:18 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> Life moves on indeed. This Christmas may well see the final
>> destruction of our parish at the hands of a group that will not
>> compromise in its desire to return the parish to an exact replica of
>> what it was at a particular point. We may be forced to move on. But I
>> continue to hope and pray for a breakthrough: either a new way forward
>> or a moment of clarity that sends us (or them) elsewhere. We lost our
>> priest-in-charge and our head MC this week. Perhaps with empty pews
>> and no one to lead a liturgy the group will finally achieve the
>> perfect parish they've wanted. I never thought I'd experience anything
>> like this. And the bishop is largely absent and silent.
>>
>> Please God, may there be a way to hope and heal.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The privilege of singing this polyphonic music and also the  plainchant
>>> made for me the greatest choral experience of my life, and I miss  it
>>>          especially at this time of the year.
>>>
>>> Life moves on.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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