[Magdalen] Heather Cook

[Lynn Ronkainen]

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On Nov 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

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