[Magdalen] One more liturgy post

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

"Good morning! It is soo good to be here. <blah blah blah>
The text for this morning is from 2 Phillipians. where <give brief summary
of the passage>.
To tell you the truth, I would have much rather preached on John 1.1, where
<give your sermon here>
However, let's get right to this text from Phillipians -- oh, my! How time
flies! I promised the caretakers I'd keep this short.
However, if you really want to talk about the Phillipians text, the email
of the person who assigned the texts is <email addr of the nimrod who chose
the text>. I'm sure he'd be happy to discuss it with you in detail."
Or you could give the url of a site where the passage is actually discussed.
Or you could say we'll discuss it at coffee hour.

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 Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm supplying tomorrow at a church that I know well. They're having only
> one service, which will probably be sparsely attended.
> The rector said we need to observe the Feast of the Holy Name instead of
> Christmas 1 and gave me the choice of the two epistle readings. I chose the
> Phillipians 2 passage for that, but I'm really disappointed that we won't
> have the Prologue to John's Gospel. I love preaching on that passage, and
> it seems to me that we need all the light we can get right now.
> The other appointed readings are singularly uninspiring (sorry, but that's
> the way it feels!).
> I have occasionally departed from assigned readings, reading the
> substitution at the beginning of my sermon.
> Your thoughts?