[Magdalen] "Failing" parishes--Canada vs. USA

[Jay Weigel]

They do. The priest that has been doing it has taken a hiatus for the
winter, saying he's too old to manage the roads. He preached a rip-roarer
of a sermon on Sunday.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jay, those parishes have been yoked for at least 30 years. They used to
> have that crazy, alternating Sunday morning schedule, too.
> Woodstock-Mt.Jackson-Woodstock. Do they still do that?
>
> > On Nov 23, 2015, at 10:34 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know how long Beckford Parish in VA (Woodstock and Mt. Jackson)
> has
> > been yoked. There are a number of Lutheran and Methodist parishes
> > hereabouts that are yoked also. It wasn't uncommon among the Methodists
> in
> > TN either, but then, it never has been with them, where it was called
> > "circuit riding" or a "circuit" and lay people picked up the slack.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Raewynne Whiteley <raewynne1 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Re yoking parishes, my observation is that it is doomed to failure,
> because
> >> it tends to prioritize building over ministry - they keep the buildings
> and
> >> the administrative structures, but expect a single priest to serve 2 or
> >> more parishes, and in most cases parishioners expect to get everything
> they
> >> had before for half the money.  Which is a recipe for burnout for the
> >> priest, and doesn't encourage the parish to be realistic about their
> life
> >> and ministry.
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Clarissa's prayer request led me to wonder about the varying position
> of
> >>> TEC vs. the Anglican Church in Canada regarding what are considered
> >>> "failing" parishes. Marion's recent experience, too, has made me
> wonder.
> >> I
> >>> realize it varies from diocese to diocese, but ISTM that the Canadian
> >>> church, at least in these instances, is behaving far more like the RCC
> in
> >>> abruptly closing these churches or pretty much setting them up to fail
> >> (in
> >>> the case of Marion's) rather than encouraging them along or "yoking"
> >> them.
> >>>
> >>> Am I seeing things correctly, or is this a misperception?
> >>
>