[Magdalen] PB installation

[Joseph Cirou]

Yes
I really enjoyed the service. I looked at the service leaflet a few days ago, but did not print it out. As a result I knew the tunes, and was rooting about in 1982 unsuccessfully finding the words. They really pulled out the stops on all the barn burners. If you are going to do all those barn burners in a single event, it's best to have the finest arrangements and the best choirs and instrumentalists. As a result the combination of repertoire was perfect
Bishop Budde really had a good time! I think Katherine enjoyed herself too. I am sure she is relieved. I wonder what is next for her. I hear about Bishop Griswold occasionally; I worked with a friend of a friend of his; so I am always interested. The pastor of our church when I was a toddler was Fr. Curry; but the nationality, race, and denomination were different (g). He musn't have lived that long; because one of my first memories is attending his predecessor's wake (I was 4) and I think Fr Curry died around 1953. 

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 1, 2015 4:02 PM
>To: magdalen <Magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: [Magdalen] PB installation
>
>Well, I watched all but about the first half hour of the service here at
>home, and it was wonderful!  I realized that I probably saw more than I
>would have if I'd been there in person.  I had downloaded the service
>booklet, so I could participate as much as I wanted, even to singing the
>hymns.  And had both cats on my lap to boot!
>
>One of the most moving moments for me was during the singing of the Lord's
>Prayer.  The altar party was standing behind the altar holding hands, and I
>realized that Barbara Harris was next to Curry. She had been seated in the
>first row in the transept, so he must have called her up to be with him.
>The first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion--also
>African-American--standing with the first African-American PB--what an
>image!
>I was a senior in seminary when Harris was elected and consecrated, and a
>bunch of us went up to Boston on the train to be there. She had quite a
>rough go of it for awhile.
>
>Curry's sermon, as expected, was very long--and very good.
>
>As an aside, does anyone know what Ed Browning is up to these days? He
>wasn't at the chapel dedication at VTS a few weeks ago, though Griswold was
>there, and it occurred to me that I haven't heard anything about him for
>quite awhile.
>
>Grace
>
>-- 
>Grace Cangialosi
>Ruckersville, VA
>
>*We must cry out against injustice or by our silence consent to it.
>Dorothy Day*