[Magdalen] End of an Era.

[Jim Guthrie]

>What's left of the congregation will have the three remaining TEC
>churches from which to choose.

Are they all viable? i.e. can they handle the cost of compensating clergy no
more than 25% of pledge and plate, and all routine operating expense and
maintenance at no more than 30-35% of pledge and plate?

Or are the dominos continuing to fall?

There were so may redundant parishes built in the high church vs low church era,
mainly in battles of ritualism that there are many parishes that just haven’t
been able to go beyond a eking out a meager existence, save for maybe the 20
years immediately following WWII.

In New york, of course, disgruntled vestry members could go to JP Morgan and get
him to finance a new parish down the street from the one with the disgruntled
members.

Until the 1970s, they could co-exist -- often with one offering Morning Prayer 
in its many variants, the other offering Communion every week as principal 
service. Dom Gregory Dix and the changes leading to the 1979 BCP pretty much 
doomed that peaceful coexistence.

Did St Paul have anyone like Morgan who financed all these?

Cheers,
Jim