[Magdalen] Worship leader

[Grace Cangialosi]

Is Stephen Miller your bishop, Brud?

> On Sep 7, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not too far from this thread, in West Missouri, ONLY priests may anoint.
> Deacons may, but only when a priest is not available to do so, and only
> with the consent of the Bishop or Canon to the Ordinary.
> 
> This is the present bishop's prerogative.  It's also contrary to countless
> years and years of deacons being able to do so in this diocese.
> 
> The PiC at Old Trinity was not happy with it, as were many presbyters I
> know.  Their reasoning ran along the line of "I busy enough as it is and
> now I can't send my deacon out to anoint someone!"
> 
> 
> Happy to be retired,
> brud
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> There is no more licensing in TEC for lay readers, though IMO they should
>> be trained.  They are called Lectors now.
>> 
>> Ann
>> 
>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>> Buffalo, NY
>> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:04 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> There is something to the idea of licensing.  I notice often that folks
>>> reading the lessons seem never to have ever even seen the material
>> before,
>>> and have no idea how one must speak in order to be understood, and
>>> everybody thinks this is just fine, fine. I used to coordinate the
>> readers,
>>> and if anyone dropped the ball like that, they would be spoken with about
>>> ways to do better (after all, nobody ever decided to read badly! They
>> just
>>> don't know).
>>> 
>>> I've heard some strange, or even horrible, sermons from supposedly
>> ordained
>>> folks. Seldom from someone who was just invited to speak.
>>