[Magdalen] Youth Sunday

[Jay Weigel]

But Grace, I understood black snakes attended a couple of the rural
churches you served out there.....

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Never thought about that, Lynn! Most exotic ones I've blessed were a
> ferret and two chickens! Have handled plenty of snakes, just not in church!
>
> On May 4, 2015, at 7:02 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> snake handling regularly here in Houston at TEC churches (just could not
> resist the acronym...) on the occasion of the feast of St. Francis.
> Seriously... and often photographed for church and city publications : 0
>
> Lynn
>
> My email has changed to: houstonKLR at gmail.com
>
> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 12:10 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Youth Sunday
>
> > From: Lynn Ronkainen
> >
> >>Episcopalian worship comes in slightly different flavors.  There are
> >>larger churches able to keep every day on the calendar with its
> >>appropriate Holy or
> >
> > Having traveled around the country over the years (especially in the
> early
> > 1980s when I was travelling a lot, I think "slightly" may be something of
> > an understatement.
> >
> > From English Catholic traditions to Mediterranean Catholic traditions, to
> > Eastern Orthodox traditions to "can’t tell the difference from the
> > Methodists" low church traditions and more recently aggressively
> inclusive
> > language tradition there a dozens of quite different "flavors" found in
> > the Episcopal Church. And then there are the parishes with a Pentecostal
> > approach -- and a few TEC parishes that joined the speaking in tongues
> > brigade. About the only thing I haven't heard of or run into directly in
> > TEC parishes was snake handling <g>
> >
> > But I'm thinking more of the past 20 years or so, especially after RC
> > families came to TEC parishes because they had young boys , for example.
> > Betrayal by their church doesn’t translate to changing their idea of what
> > "church" should be.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jim
>
>