[Magdalen] Youth Sunday

[Grace Cangialosi]

Late, but I just found dozens of these messages in my spam folder...

They weren't black snakes in the one church, just little ring-necked snakes. They showed up in their clerical collars from time to time and were the reason for my Sunday morning "snake checks."
There was one black snake at the other church that we never actually saw. But there would come a Sunday in April when we would arrive to find his very long skin hanging from one of the beams!
After we had siding put on the church, we never saw another snakeskin...

> On May 4, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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