[Magdalen] Supply job

[Jay Weigel]

The interim they've had is taking a hiatus for the winter months, saying
he's "too old" to manage the roads and schedule in the winter. (Frtiz
Trumbose) I don't know what happens next.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
>