[Magdalen] One more liturgy post

[Grace Cangialosi]

Uh...I'm used to preaching short, Jim! But thanks!


> On Dec 31, 2016, at 1:27 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "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?