[Magdalen] Worship leader

[Charles Wohlers]

In Massachusetts (and here in VT), I'd never heard of licensed worship 
leaders, except in a historical context. AFAIK, they do not now exist in 
Massachusetts, and haven't for many years. We have two flavors of LEM's: 
chalice bearers and lay eucharistic visitors who take the eucharist to 
shut-ins. The latter are trained by the Diocese, the former not.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com




-----Original Message----- 
From: Marilyn Cepeda
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 11:20 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Worship leader

This question came up because we are vacant. There are ongoing negotiations
with a retired priest to
Serve as priest in charge but he is not in place. I am the only licensed
worship leader at this time.
A staff member expressed interest in sharing responsibilities for worship
with me alternating. He
Is not licensed. I do not mind sharing, but what is the point of being
licensed if anyone can do it anyway.
We are making an attempt to do things the "right" way. I suppose the bishop
will have to address the issue.

Marilyn
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:51 AM Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
wrote:

> At my parish in Mass., we often have Morning Prayer when the rector is on
> vacation. On those occasions, we have two of our regular LEM's lead the
> service. We're only licensed as chalice bearers - whether that's strictly
> "legal" or not, I don't know, but that's what we do.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
> --
Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
Mobile, Alabama