[Magdalen] Prayers for Ascension, Chicago

[Molly Wolf]

Oh boy.  The parish needs to do some serious soul-searching and is apt to fight that with tooth and nail.  If I were the bishop, I would refuse to fill the vacancy until a strong interim had worked with the parish for a good long time.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Sep 14, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I remember Scott reporting that he fired the OCM, which may have been one
>> thing inspiring the mutiny. I don't recall the other things.
> 
> This, involving two separate people (organist and choirmaster), plus
> the parish administrator, has been at the core of the opposition
> group's grievances. What helped this snowball was the formation of a
> Save Ascension group, with weekly email blast, that in my opinion
> turned into a grievance machine that needed weekly feeding, with more
> complaints about liturgical changes and disagreements from vestry
> meetings. It also took on a good bit of conspiracy theory and
> projection of motives. All quite regrettable, and in the end,
> impossible to quell.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA