[Magdalen] Worship leader

[Jon Egger]

I think he's West Mo stock.  Marty Field is our present bishop.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
>