[Magdalen] Worship leader

[Ann Markle]

If it were my parish, I would want a licensed worship leader to do it.
Smaller, weekday daily offices are one thing; the main Sunday service is
another, as far as I am concerned.  In East Tennessee, however, this
license was trained by the parish priest (unlike licensed preacher, who
must take a pretty extensive diocesan course), so it was pretty easy to do,
and I enjoyed doing it.  Preaching is not the issue, since the preaching
license is a separate thing from the worship leader license.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think the only question here is about preaching. If there is a sermon,
> it is only supposed to be given by a licensed lay preacher, unless one of
> the prepared sermons from the national church is being given.
> I know that is regularly disregarded, but that's the rule, at least in our
> diocese.
> Obviously, if there's no sermon, anyone can lead Morning Prayer.
>
> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 10:51 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.
>