[Magdalen] Saint Michael and All Angels.

[Marion Thompson]

He is indeed 'a little short dude', as is our head server, my best buddy 
there.  I'm the younger of two by seven years, so was in effect an only 
child because my brother was off and away.  In any case, he had a 
different relationship with our mother who was, um, strong in her 
opinions of how things should be and brooked no discussion or argument 
from me.  You could say that I never had a chance to develop a voice of 
my own in that no-win situation.  In my adult life the more it matters 
to _me_, the more intimately I am connected with the issue and possible 
repercussions, the less likely I am to open Pandora's box.  Q.E.D.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 10/1/2015 10:00 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Marion, I'd say you are basically non-confrontational and hate
> conflict...are you perchance a middle child?...although I do like your
> "guerrilla style". But someone is going to have to open a discussion at
> some point, and it doesn't sound as if he's going to; he sounds more like
> the "my way, right or wrong" type, which makes me wonder if he's a little
> short dude. However, it also sounds like there are some folks who think
> like you do, and it's always best to have allies in such a thing.
>
> Just my $.02 (US),
> Jay
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If I happen to be the intercessor I always restore the proper references,
>> as does our head server if it happens to be him. :-)
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>> On 9/30/2015 6:36 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>>
>>> On 30/09/2015 23:22, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, somewhere out on our prairies; probably the same end result.  He
>>>> spent some years at the now-defunct (he was the priest who saw its merger
>>>> with another church in the area) St. Margaret's in Toronto, a prayerbook
>>>> church founded as an evangelical response to Anglo-Catholicism. Why in
>>>> God's name would a bishop send him to us?  Just another breathtaking
>>>> example of episcopal insensitivity.
>>>>
>>> I'm afraid some Evangelicals can be like that.  They forget that the
>>> Anglican tradition has breadth and seeks to incorporate different styles of
>>> worship and different emphases, thinking that their understanding and their
>>> preferred style is the only valid one.  As to why the bishop sent this
>>> particular priest, probably just somewhere to put him.
>>>
>>> Incidentally after sending my last post I wondered if somebody would be
>>> brave enough to overrule his redactions and put in the "Saints" and refer
>>> to Our Lady in the normal wau while reading the prayers. If someone
>>> referred to her as "Blessed Mary, ever virgin" then you should probably
>>> have an ambulance outside ;-)
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>