[Magdalen] Epiphany

[Jay Weigel]

David, that not only made me giggle, I got an immediate flashback to my
daughter's wedding, which was conducted, for reasons I won't go into, by a
wonderful African-American Baptist pastor who used a *very* traditional
service, including the part about "submitting" to one's husband.  When he
got to that, there were smothered giggles throughout the congregation,
including from the mother of the groom.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 1/8/2015 12:45:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> I  sometimes wonder how some, if not almost all, of Paul got into the
> canon.
> But that's me.>>>>
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> There was an American soprano studying at the Hochschule fur  Musik
> in Frankfurt/M, Germany when we lived there in the 1960's.  She  was
> a member of Saint Christopher's (now Christ the King) Episcopal  Church
> and a frequent soloist there.  She was possessed of a fine,  Wagnerian
> voice that could easily overwhelm choir, organ, and congregation on
> descants.
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> She was also a strong feminist.
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> She wedded an American oboe player during those years, and had a
> full Solemn High Nuptial Mass.  I was subdeacon, and got the  unenviable
> task of chanting the old Pauline '28 BCP wedding Epistle to her and  her
> new husband kneeling in front of me.  The old "woman obey your  husband"
> text seemed especially out of date and the humor of having me chant this
> to
> a Wagnerian soprano almost made me lose it.
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> David Strang.
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