[Magdalen] Heather Cook
Jim Guthrie
jguthrie at pipeline.com
Wed Nov 4 19:01:12 UTC 2015
From: ME Michaud
>time. After a vestry meeting, someone would say, "God, I need a drink." It
>took me a long time to realize what sounded like amusing irony wasn't. It
Well, in my experience the post vestry version was always "I'm hungry." Is that
a code for gluttony?
We went out to eat -- often in a place where we could get a glass of wine. And
there it stopped. I'm sorry to hear your vestry experience was different.
>me a long time to realize that at diocesan events about a third of the
>people didn't return after the afternoon break (dawn broke when I was asked
I suppose there are dioceses out there that might drive people to drink, but
again, not my experience. One might see a dozen delegates or so having a
nightcap at the hotel bar. And AFAIK, all toddled off to bed fairly quickly as
breakfast started at 7:30 AM.
I'm sorry to hear that alcoholism was so rampant in your parish and diocese.
But in a dozen parishes and three dioceses, this was never any experience I
could relate to.
Cheers,
Jim
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