[Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.o

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jim G : like the Rectors who refused to go
> through the BCP revision process in their parishes and left their 
> congregations distraught over the results when bishop s required the 1979 
> BCP, some of those same guys also ignored the work toward the new 
> hymnal....and left a bad taste in the mouths of congregants they had 
> deliberately left ignorant.

Episcopalians can be feisty...

I came into TEC at this time and did not understand much about it until a 
decade and a diocese later (was in the fairly liberal dio of Central NY at 
the time, but had a Mother in-law, cradle Episcopalian who was abjectly 
opposed to weekly Eucharist... ("made it seem unimportant") in fact, the 
church where we all went phased it in from every other Sunday, for two 
years, alternating with MP/sermon, and finally went full bore Eux every 
Sunday after that.
L

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single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 9:35 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.o

> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>
>>There were reviewers in every diocese.  I was such a reviewer  for
>>several years in the Diocese of Eau Claire.
>
> Yes indeed -- it was not created out of some dark place by those evil 
> big-city organists <g>. But I hasten to add that  In the latter case, 
> many of them seem to have been in parishes where use of hymns beyond the 
> local "Top-40" caused "Pastoral Problems (i.e. the Rector is as lazy as 
> they come and the organist doesn’t have to do much work. either <g>), 
> finding that some of their favorites were missing "Once to Every Man and 
> Nation" or Grand Isle for "Ancient of Days") and left a bad taste in the 
> mouths of congregants they had deliberately left ignorant.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim:
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>