[Magdalen] Prayers for my church

[Jon Egger]

I have emailed my bishop to let him know I wish to retire, rather than
continuing my LOA.  It's clear to me, from what I know of Old Trinity, that
it's what I call a hospice church.  It depresses me because their is a core
group of families that talk about "when Fr. Ed did" even though he's been
dead for 20 years.  If you do any reading on "the 10 signs of a dying
parish" Old Trinity has 7 symptoms.  Fr. Russ is taking me to lunch on
Thursday. We''l talk about.

Question: I'd be honored to be their Deacon Emeritus.  Is that a vestry
decision or the bishops?

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Prayers and more. For you and the flock in all of their  gifts and "stuff".
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 15, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> We said goodbye to our priest this morning  :-(  Despite the bitter bitter
> cold, turnout was pretty good
>
> Our bishop doesn't like our deficit and says we can't have a full-time
> priest.  No search committee for us, and if we don't improve it we could be
> closed.  And here we are, running a food bank and holding cooking classes
> for our food bank users, our neighbours literally
>
> We have a bunch of poisonous people, long long time members, who hated him
> and left and are poised to return now that he has left. Those who are still
> with us wouldn't contribute to the gifts from the different ministries,
> nothing, and didn't show up this morning. Poisonous.  The viper in our
> bosom.
>
> We did the end of a Pastoral Relationship and I got to lead those
> prayers.  Too rich for my sentimental blood, although I came through -- a
> close run thing.  He's well out of it!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
>
> My church needs prayers very badly.  Of your mercy, pray for us.
>