[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Lynn Ronkainen]

good news!
Lynn

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From: "Kristin Rollins" <kristin at verumsolum.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 3:40 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

> All went well.
>
> I avoided correcting the two people who called me by my old name,
> because it didn't feel like there was a good way to handle it. (In one
> case, it was called from the front of the church to where I was in the
> organ loft at the back of the church, thankfully before anybody else had
> arrived.) But my connection there is peripheral enough that it is not
> surprising that there were people who didn't know.
>
> The playing went OK, even though two of the three hymns were ones with
> arrangements better suited to piano than organ, and even with the long
> layoff. The nave held everybody, so the only company I had up near the
> organ was the rector's wife, and then the chair of the altar guild came
> up and sat beside me during the sermon.
>
> But I am definitely relieved to put that "first time" behind me. And I
> really need to get over there one of these Sunday mornings, since I'm
> not "chained" to St. John's every single Sunday now.
>
> Kristin
>
> -- 
>  Kristin Rollins
>  kristin at verumsolum.com
>  Portsmouth, VA
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 02:04 PM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
>> Friends,
>>
>> A minor short-term prayer request...
>>
>> I got an email earlier today from the rector of our former parish in
>> Virginia Beach, asking if I was available for a funeral tomorrow
>> afternoon. (I have continued to play for funerals, etc. there, when
>> their organist can not disentangle himself from his day job.)
>>
>> This will be the first time I have played the organ since leaving my
>> position in Portsmouth in mid-November, and the first time with people
>> knowing me as Kristin. And it will be the first time I visit that church
>> since the name change. The last time I visited there, I attended a
>> midweek eucharist and afterwards came out to the rector there and told
>> him that I had announced my resignation earlier that week. (So it helped
>> that we had touched base on the subject, so that we didn't need to sort
>> that out with a funeral barely 24 hours away. And that conversation,
>> combined with his email being addressed to Kristin, led me to be able to
>> respond positively and quickly.)
>>
>> On the more comfortable side, unlike St John's, the organ at Old
>> Donation is in a gallery above the back of the church, so there is less
>> of the feeling of being "on display" at the front of the church
>> (especially since I don't own vestments so will either need to borrow a
>> set or play in whatever I am wearing). And now, I will need to consider
>> my clothes and decide which would be most appropriate for a funeral. Oh
>> yes, and also find where my organ shoes and Hymnal are! (Either in the
>> bag they were brought home in on my final day or still in one of our
>> vehicles.)
>>
>> Kristin
>>
>> -- 
>>   Kristin Rollins
>>   kristin at verumsolum.com
>>   Portsmouth, VA