[Magdalen] Grumpy greeter

[Joseph Cirou]

Definitely need Grump Greeter as one of our male novices. We have imagined a comic strip with a portly gentleman in a verger's outfit looking slightly like the dwarf in Snow White harrumphing his way through the vicissitudes that attend the Syncretic Hermitesses with interminable familiarity.

Mother Ste Folitesse, maîtresse des novices


-----Original Message-----
>From: Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 11, 2015 4:39 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Grumpy greeter
>
>...And Dame Eutrapelia might have simply run a big strip of her
>special extra-wide Beguine Charitable Silence Tape (otherwise known as
>duct tape) straight across the complainer's mouth, allowing the ends
>to meet behind the neck for extra-effective silencing.
>
>Her humble scribe.
>
>On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Mother Egregia avers that Grumpy Greeter and his amanuensis should sing a setting of any version of a lesson from the Apocalypse in minor sixths in one of the speciali modo versions with optional sackbut continuo on the second feast of St Jerome according to the use of the Church in Illyria or Slovenia.
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>> Mother Ste Folitesse, ensembliste
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>>>Sent: Oct 11, 2015 2:54 PM
>>>To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <Magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>>Subject: [Magdalen] Grumpy greeter
>>>
>>>Well, isn't that special. I lost my patience with a fellow parishioner
>>>today as I greeted folks in the narthex after Mass. (Subdeacon
>>>typically helps greet.) Just one too many complaints. The one that set
>>>me off was "Glad you were subdeacon today instead of N. who can't
>>>chant." I said, "I trained N., and somebody barked at him after the
>>>first time he served, complaining about his chanting. No one else will
>>>ever step up to do anything around here because of the constant
>>>complaining." Then I vanished to the sacristy, probably a good move as
>>>I think I might have gotten louder and attracted attention.
>>>
>>>So I suppose I have to apologize now to that parishioner but I don't
>>>want to (and I was sick of hearing the same guy's complaint about the
>>>hymn tempo...complain to the organist, for crying out loud). Sort of
>>>had with our parish's culture of complaint. Everyone's got to have an
>>>opinion about everything, and too many come to church to look for
>>>things to complain about.
>>>
>>>Something to bring up in therapy...thank God I've got that. Emotional
>>>ups and downs lately. Downs, mainly (although mild, they're annoying).
>>>Sorry again for how these have shown up in my Pub participation
>>>lately.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Scott R. Knitter
>>>Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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