[Magdalen] Supply job

[Jay Weigel]

I wish you were doing Woodstock/Mt. Jackson. I was at Woodstock Sunday
(kind of a long drive, but I had my reasons) and I was overwhelmed by the
friendliness and welcome I found there.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:56 PM, anthony clavier <anthonyfmclavier at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Archdeacon Neve's missions.
>
> Tony
>
> On Monday, November 23, 2015, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, I just agreed to take services on Dec. 20th for two churches over
> in
> > the valley whose rector left for another position a couple of months ago.
> > When I got the message asking if I was available, I had to decide if I
> > really wanted to do it, because I don't have very positive feelings about
> > these churches. But I decided that wasn't a good enough reason to turn
> them
> > down. But let me describe the situation to you.
> > These two churches are two of the remaining mountain mission churches in
> > the diocese--there were 30 at one time, dating from the early years of
> the
> > 20th Century. These two are about six miles apart on a main country road.
> > They do have parish status now and share a rector's position. Each has a
> > vestry.
> > The service schedule is crazy: 8:00am at one church--it's their main
> > service--9:30 at the other church, and 11:00 back at the first church
> for a
> > congregation of about 12.
> > The churches are about 1-1/4 hours from me.
> > I supplied for them early this year, but they just had one combined
> > service that day, and there weren't more than 10 people.
> > The senior warden told me this evening that they leave the 11:00 service
> > up to the supply person; if he or she doesn't want to do all three, they
> > omit that one. Strange...
> >
> > The priest who just left, who was a seminary classmate, was there for 25
> > years and basically let them ride roughshod over him the whole time. I
> > can't fault them for that, since he didn't call them on it, but my sense
> is
> > that they are much more social clubs than spiritual entities.
> > Anyway, I've committed to that one Sunday, but with considerably less
> > enthusiasm than I'd like.
> > Long-term, I'm not sure what their prospects are. They haven't been
> paying
> > the rector the diocesan scale, and I think it will very difficult for
> them
> > to attract a priest, unless it's someone right out of seminary with no
> > family.
> >
> > So I'm not quite sure why I felt nudged to do this, but there's probably
> a
> > reason (aside from the extra income), and at some point I'll probably
> > figure out what it is.
>
>
>
> --
> The Rev. Tony Clavier
> Vicar: St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Glen Carbon IL
> and St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Granite City IL
>