[Magdalen] Quiet Pub

[Marion Thompson]

The pace of life picks up at this time of year.  Lots of time spent at 
my church (and that is ALL good news with much inner work being done).  
Apart from the weekly Eucharist we share with our sister church of St. 
John's this morning, later we will have a Eucharist honouring St. Lucia 
(and I believe there will be a little Lucia) and a potluck.  Mondays, 
Tuesdays, and Thursdays we have matins in the rectory.  Mondays we also 
have Lectio Divina. Tomorrow there is also centring prayer and choir 
practice (my turn to do the Advent Prose on Sunday).  My mother would 
call it, as she once did in my teens, 'religious dissipation', but I 
call it a blessing!

On Saturday last the Marion Singers sang at St. Mary Magdalen. What 
acoustics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Like St. Paul's Cathedral with its 
8-second  reverb.  We started with Lauritsen's O Magnum Mysterium to set 
the mood.  Beyond words!  As was Willan's The Three Kings in that 
space.  Our new director is a blessing.

Last evening was Food Bank night at St. Peter's, Oshawa.  What a world 
we live in.  The last woman through with a bunch of kids as well as her 
own problems and issues, benefited from being last in that I could add a 
bit more from the meagre supply of frozen (the local agency had been 
able to give us nothing this week!).  There was one only frozen 
half-pound of Maple Leaf bacon and I gave it to her.  Her eyes filled 
with tears -- bacon!!!! A treat way beyond measure.  She held it to her 
and said she would save it for them on Christmas.  Aw geez.

And so it goes.  Don't know what I'm doing for Christmas, although I do 
know I have no wish to drive any distance to the various options.

Keep safe, dear friends.

Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....


On 12/13/2016 9:28 PM, Christopher Hart wrote:
> Am I missing something(s) or has the pub been unusually quiet for the last
> couple of days? Not that I mind a little break this time of year and maybe
> we're all in mourning for Margaret Guenther, but I just want to be sure I'm
> still in touch with everyone here.
> .
>