[Magdalen] Arrow prayer request

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We make time for what's important.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Right now we're struggling a bit with maintaining a daily Mass
> schedule with fewer and fewer people attending. As happens lately in
> other Anglo-Catholic parishes as well, daily Mass is considered a
> hallmark of Anglo-Catholic practice but few see fit to attend even
> occasionally. There's of course flack when some days go Mass-less due
> to clergy vacations, but then if a priest is procured from another
> parish, or a retired priest, to keep daily Mass going while the rector
> is away, attendance is even less, or zero, and the priest often can't
> even start Mass because there's no one else there.
>
> One person can pray the daily office in church on behalf of the whole
> parish, but you can't do that with Mass. People gotta be there. As a
> friend in London told his parishioners after one of those "Father's
> away, so we won't be in church today" episodes, "If you consider
> yourselves Catholic, live like it," which means getting to Mass
> regularly and sometimes on weekdays when possible (ideally on a
> regular plan: once a week, daily, once a month, whatever). It'll
> rarely be a big crowd on a weekday, but two or three are
> sufficient...and the more the better, of course.
>
> Our place needs to do better with making the church look like it's
> open and something's going on inside.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:46 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought it was just the one person. We had daily office and various
> > leaders were scheduled for it. For some time, it ended up being only the
> > leader, and we finally gave up. There's never been interest in those
> daily
> > office things. Even Bible study was difficult. Some would love it, but
> over
> > time, folks had other things that took up their time.  You make time for
> > what's important. Nuf said.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>