[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[Jon Egger]

We had a retired Scottish Episcopal priest visit Old Trinity last summer.
We talked about Seabury's consecration and he said that even today the
Scottish church looks at TEC with much love and reverence.

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Grace & peace,
Rev. Jon Egger
Deacon Emeritus
Old Trinity Parish
Independence, MO


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> There are some churches around us that are well aware of their Scots
> heritage. One place where I substituted was announcing the annual Kirkin'
> o' the Tartans
>
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We had a piper at our church in Tennessee on the occasion of the 300th
> > anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish
> bishops,
> > which I have always privately thought the Scots looked on as another
> > opportunity to stick it to the Brits. The piper came into the back of the
> > church after most of the congregation was seated, so they weren't aware
> of
> > him, and when the first notes came out there was considerable shock and
> > surprise, though mostly positive, especially among the kids. That church
> > has excellent acoustics and is highly reverberant, so you can
> imagine......
> >
> > My youngest grandson is heavily Scottish on his mother's side and Puerto
> > Rican on his father's. When he was a little tyke my daughter commented
> that
> > "he smiles at the pipes and boogies to Tito Puente." Both her boys are
> > enthusiastic about the yearly Highland festival and games that take place
> > in the area where they live.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:51 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh heavens, I can just imagine, David!
> > >
> > > Oddly enough this was my second bagpipe experrience in a few days
> though
> > I
> > > can't recall when I last heard the pipes.
> > >
> > > St Andrew's College in Grahamstown, an Anglican school of fine
> tradition,
> > > had some kind of anniversary celebration this weekend and we were there
> > for
> > > the horse riding. At our Saturday evening meal in a restaurant next to
> > the
> > > school fields, a piper started to play from somewhere up above the
> > stands,
> > > in the pitch dark. What an eerie sound especially in the night.
> > >
> > > There's somethng about it that gets into the marrow of one's bones
> > though.
> > > Probably by now many of us have a bit of Scots somewhere in us, or
> > perhaps
> > > just an ancestral fear of them in battle array!!
> > >
> > > Sally D
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 at 04:21 Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 3/17/2015 5:42:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > > sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hugh  comes from Scots stock and he had previously asked for a piper
> in
> > > > tartan to  play him into and out of the church, very moving (and
> loud,
> > > > inside!)>>>>
> > > >
> > > > Saint Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis, MN USA has an annual
> > > > Saint Andrew's Day, with a whole troop of bagpipers in that
> > > > highly reverberant space - stone vaults are 75' and the building
> > > > is about 200' long.
> > > >
> > > > It is absolute bedlam.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > David Strang.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>