[Magdalen] My Church
Jim Guthrie
jguthrie at pipeline.com
Tue Mar 17 20:49:42 UTC 2015
I would suggest, if you feel this strongly about this subject that you
cease attending St. Luke's, Scranton, where they have a professional
choir and organist, and spend your church time at the Saint Vincent
de Paul Soup Kitchen.
I suspect St Luke’s will change with the calling of a new PIC.
After all, the “Professional Choir” (a quartet) etc. has helped get the parish down to a mere handful of people – first Sunday we started attending regularly there were 18 – including priest, organist, the 4-member “professional choir” and acolytes,and Albert and I – so that counts 9 –plus nine others in the congregation. Biggest count has been 30. This is quite a fall from even 1992 when we first visited on a Sunday.
ASA is augmented by a like number who avoid the “Professional Choir” for a no music in said service on Saturday afternoon. That started out as a contemporary service, but the Supply priests don’t get involved in such.
St Luke’s can’t continue on that path, to be sure.
It’s disappointing that they closed their second-hand shop which helped a lot of people in downtown Scranton, and also provided companionship for the volunteers (including non-members) who worked there.
Having worked on two search committees, I’m also surprised that the deployment office would accept the new parish profile (available on online at the parish website), but I wouldn’t be surprised if the diocese has some ulterior motive in suggesting names of clergy who will actually fix the place.
Cheers,
Jim
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