[Magdalen] Supply job

[Grace Cangialosi]

Do they have an interim, Jay?

> On Nov 23, 2015, at 10:39 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>