[Magdalen] Please pray for Ascension, Chicago

[Marion Thompson]

I deplore that people leave a place for reasons like staff changes. Is 
not God still there?  Can't people focus on that?

Our priest is leaving on Feb 15 and my little church home will be off to 
the races, with all the usual running sores reopened.  Oy!

Marion, a pilgrim  ... today my sail I lift ....
On 1/17/2015 6:34 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Marion Thompson
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As I recall from Scott's post, the rector has been there nearly a year.
>> Hardly just arrived.
> True. Almost a year now.
>
> I'm coming to grips with the changes, even though I hate the way
> they're done; too much like a corporate layoff, and that stinks.
>
> One of the main lessons to learn from this is not to hire a longtime
> parishioner as the full-time parish administrator, even though he's
> done a stellar job in many ways. Makes it too hard to make a change.
>
> Church could be weird tomorrow; I suppose I'll be subdeacon because
> one of the five of us is recovering from surgery, another just left
> the parish, the third will leave when he hears the news if he hasn't
> already. So that leaves two of us: our first female subdeacon who
> started serving last week (yay!), and me.
>
> I wonder whether we'll have a musicless, or a cappella, Lent this
> year. But perhaps there are plans I don't know about yet.
>
>