[Magdalen] Church Crawl

[Judy Fleener]

TWS?

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Merry Christmas Jim! so glad you folks could return to NYC for Christmas
> again!
> peace
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 6:50 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: [Magdalen] Church Crawl
>
>
> Our first stop on our church crawl didn't pan out.
>>
>> St Thomas Fifth Avenue was packed -- every seat taken -- by 3:20 PM for
>> the 4 PM Lessons and Carols.  That's close to 900 or more people -- in the
>> balcony, the chapel -- just chock full!
>>
>> So we ended up walking down to St Mary the Virgin, where the concert
>> began at 4:30 PM and Mass at 5 PM. It was interesting to note that only
>> about half the congregation received. Fr. Smith inquired after the state of
>> my health --  thoughtful for someone who gets there twice a year at this
>> point.
>>
>> On to TWS tonight and ST Bart's tomorrow then back  to Scranton.
>>
>> Merry Christmas, everyone!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>>


-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan