[Magdalen] A quarter century...

[cady soukup]

Congratulations Grace!

Very glad you were called to the ministry - and even the last few
years have been quite an interesting time for you!

hugs - Cady

On 2/17/15, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>