[Magdalen] Coffee Anyone?

[Grace Cangialosi]

He was a Lutheran until he saw the light...

> On Jul 31, 2015, at 12:43 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Garrison Keiller wrote that on days when it's a hundred degrees and ninety
> per cent humidity, Episcopalians will still have their coffee.
> 
> Although I got the impression he was a Lutheran, he is apparently an
> Episcopalian, so it's legal for him to make fun...
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> the coffee break = liturgy of the table??
>> 
>> L
>> 
>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>> 
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
>> by Richard Rohr
>> 
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>> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 3:47 PM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Cc: <Cantor03 at aol.com>
>> Subject: [Magdalen] Coffee Anyone?
>> 
>> 
>> Lutheran Stuff:
>>> 
>>> My Cousin Connie, essentially raised as a sister, confided in me that
>>> her oldest son (named after me) and his wife have recently  transferred
>>> membership from an ELCA parish to a large CLB (Church of the Lutheran
>>> Brethren) church in the city.
>>> 
>>> On the one hand I'm concerned because the CLB is quite unlike other
>>> Lutheran groups in that it is essentially an evangelical  denomination. It
>>> has a free-form liturgy of the type one would expect in a megachurch,
>>> and traces its origin to the Pietistic Movement in  Scandinavia.
>>> 
>>> I am not enamored by what we call in the USA "Evangelicals".
>>> 
>>> My cousin visited the church with son and wife recently, and I was curious
>>> about her experience.  The church has three services on  Sunday morning.
>>> The first, which she attended, was rather straight forward with  hymns,
>>> prayers, and a sermon.  The other two she described as  "contemporary"
>>> and "Supercontemporary".  The latter is so free-form that Connie's
>>> teenagers
>>> consider the worship style over the top.
>>> 
>>> The service Connie attended began with the singing of several  hymns
>>> accompanied by the piano and played by yet another of my cousins who
>>> is the parish ("Bethesda") music director.
>>> 
>>> Then there was some scripture and prayers.
>>> 
>>> AND THEN THEY TOOK A COFFEE BREAK!
>>> 
>>> They returned to the nave proper for the sermon, some additional  hymns,
>>> and it was all over.
>>> 
>>> There have been worship liturgies I've attended through the years, where a
>>> coffee break during the liturgy might have been very helpful.
>>> 
>>> Maybe the CLB is on to something.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>> 
>>