[Magdalen] A quarter century...

[Grace Cangialosi]

Montgomery ordained one of my classmates here in Virginia two weeks before I was ordained, if you can believe! There were so many of us that spring that Bishop Lee had some other bishops help with the ordination. It must have quite a stretch for Montgomery to do this in low-church Virginia, but it was anything but low church! He added all sorts of flourishes, prayers and ceremonial to the service. 

(My spell-correct just changed low-church to "low-carb!!)

On February 17, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

I sometimes hear stories about priests who could say Mass in 17 minutes,
"amice to amice," so it includes vesting and final sacristy prayers. I
can't imagine how that could physically be done with the old 1928 rite,
especially enhanced by an old Missal like the American Missal.

Our beloved former bishop, +James Montgomery, is sometimes mentioned as a
fast Mass-sayer like that. These days (at age 90+), he's very fast giving
Communion (I've gone with him with the paten and holding his sleeve, and I
had to hustle to keep up) but quite normally paced with the prayers of the
liturgy. He swims every morning and walks to the Church of the Atonement
here in our neighborhood. And has an amazing memory, still. Long may he yet
live.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> David, I will never forget Fr. Gerald White from St.. Francis.....he used
> to come over and say mass at St. Andrew's in August when Fr. Sabin was on
> vacation. He could say mass faster than anyone I've ever heard do it before
> or since, and those eyebrows! "Our mLord mSavior mJesus mChrist..." My
> brother would mimic him unmercifully, but he was very nice.
>




-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA