[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Grace Cangialosi]

"Old Donation"??  I passed a church with that name once a few years ago somewhere in Virginia, I think. Strangest church name I've ever heard! Only in VA, I thought, where there is also the Robert E. Lee Memorial Chapel, also known to the locals as "St. Bobby's"
Where is your Old Donation Church, Kristin?

> On Jan 6, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 04:49 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>> I am delighted it went well and agree it would be good for Kristin to be 
>> seen there more regularly.
> 
> 
> I am surprised to be able to say at this point that I have been back to
> St John's three times (will be a fourth tonight) since I resigned as
> their organist. And the welcome has been quite good. So Old Donation
> would not be fulfilling the role I thought it might need to (because the
> reaction from St John's has surpassed any expectation I had). In fact
> the only "flaw" for St John's can sometimes be that everybody is still
> so excited to see me back that I feel I get rather more attention that I
> am comfortable with. So I have another large nearby parish which I
> intend to visit some week soon for a chance to hopefully anonymously
> slip into a pew.
> 
> The other reason I had not gone back there was because Heather still has
> commitments that tie her to St John's on Sunday mornings, so I would
> have to go there alone. But I survived going there alone today, so maybe
> I should just do it some week.
> 
> 
>> I am not a musician but agree that there are hymns which are better 
>> suited to a more percussive accompaniment than the organ supplies. There 
>> is little you can do about it if that is the hymn chosen and the organ 
>> is the only accompaniment available.
> 
> 
> There is an electronic keyboard, but it is positioned in such a way that
> the organ blocks the player's view of ANYTHING when playing...and, I
> don't recall it being used for anything but choral or solo accompaniment
> when I was there. Though it is long enough ago that I could be mistaken
> about that. 
> 
> Kristin