[Magdalen] VTS Chapel addendum...

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, I think it's not just the protocol of the consecration service itself that's causing the stress--it's all of the events surrounding it--Evening Prayer tomorrow, the big service on Tuesday with the ABC preaching and the PB celebrating, and a Choral Evensong Tuesday evening, which I will have to miss. Then there's a reception, shuttle buses from various locations where people are parked, tours of various kinds, a talk by the sculptor of the new statue of the Visitation...well, you get the idea! To say nothing of hundreds of people!


> On Oct 11, 2015, at 8:02 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On 10/10/2015 16:57, Grace Cangialosi wrote
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>> A seminarian told me that stress among staff at VTS has been incredibly high in the run up to next week's consecration event, and The Dean has said it's the >biggest event ever held there.  The ABC, the PB and the PB-elect will all be in attendance!
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> That's a problem of VTS's own choosing. Any real Anglo-Catholic venue would simply assign a burly acolyte or two to each of the poobahs and make sure they stand where they're supposed to, sit when they're supposed to and move around as directed by the MC.
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> Just because one might be PB-elect or the ABC, a good spikey A-C parish puts up with no nonsense from mere liturgical amateurs (defined as those who are not intimately familiar with the liturgical practices and quirks of that particular A-C parish that the entire altar party can do it effortlessly even when they're all suffering a terrible hangover from a party the night before <g>).
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> Cheers,
> Jim