[Magdalen] For Lynn

[Joseph Cirou]

I'd be mighty angry if the organist agreed to play all the verses and then did not.
I am grateful that St. John Vianney tended to sing many vss. I would program vss being omitted and we did omit an entire hymn in the interest of common sense. I see the National Cathedral does the same thing when there is no more Communion to be distributed after the anthem.

Mother Egregia has a special ruler for such infractions ( she "borrowed" it from a well known specialty museum in Nuremburg.)

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 30, 2016 3:47 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] For Lynn
>
>Hello Roger... thanks for asking. The street in front of the church was dry 
>by the morning of my mom's memorial service (having been a river only 2 days 
>before).  All went well, except that I forgot that the RC church has a 
>propensity to only sing one or two verses of hymns. My mom had left 
>direction for 5 hymns, which was the amount requested for use during the 
>service. After singing partial hymns  for the first three during the 
>service, after receiving communion I approached the organist - we were in a 
>small chapel and he was in the corner and accessible - and asked if he would 
>*please* play the communion hymn and recessional all the way through... he 
>seemed to indicate that he would and then he did not.  I coped with this by 
>remembering all the times my mom came to church with me (before she moved to 
>TX) and ALWAYS said how nice it was that Episcopalians sang the hymns all 
>the way through : ).... and my other coping mechanism from years ago came 
>through for me also... I call it 'flowers at the wedding'.... if the bride 
>gets to the church and the bridal party's flowers are not as expected, just 
>go with the flow... and don't let it ruin the day/moment etc... : )
>
>Yes... rain and bad weather are supposed to visit this area all weekend. We 
>did have a big storm before daybreak today (Saturday) , but only rain in my 
>neck of the woods. Tonight is supposed to be worse and N/NE of here, so 
>hopefully we will remain unflooded. Up near Dallas there have been terrible 
>tornadoes and hail.  One remaining danger here is high winds as the 
>saturated ground easily 'gives up' large trees which blow over and have 
>fallen on people, houses and vehicles during the course of the last week. 
>Also the saturation level is part of the formula for the odds of flooding 
>depending on how much and how fast any additional rain brings.
>
>So far, high enough and dry,
>Lynn
>
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>
>When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
>single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
>attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
>by Richard Rohr
>
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>From: "ROGER STOKES" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 7:55 AM
>To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: [Magdalen] For Lynn
>
>> Were you able to have your mother's memorial service last week as planned?
>>
>> Listening to the weather report overf breakfast I heard you're getting 
>> even more rain and that last night a couple of planes at the airport were 
>> moved by the wind.
>> Keep safe and dry.
>> Roger 
>