[Magdalen] Prayers for Ascension, Chicago

Jon Egger revegger at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 00:02:26 UTC 2015


Save Ascension?  I hope someone has been forwarding them to the bishop.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Agreed; will it happen? Who can say? Our interim before Fr. Cobb
> arrived pretty much just kept things going without doing much in the
> way of preparation. I gather the previous interim some years ago was
> very effective and beloved.
>
> We've been absolutely headed in the right direction with Fr. Cobb, or
> at least facing in the right direction if not yet able to move very
> quickly. He has the right model for how an Anglo-Catholic parish can
> bring people in and flourish. I grieve that we won't get to do that
> with him.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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