[Magdalen] 31 December 2015 - Beth and George Conant-Lambert

[Joseph Cirou]

Congratulations and eis polla eti to the happy couple. I had a nice St Basil's Day. I went to church for the first time (at my parish) since November 21--I've been playing at various churches in the meantime. No cantor showed up. So guess what? A busman's holiday. Just followed the liturgy; but improvised a chant for the Communion for Fridays and sang the Polychronia (abbreviated in Greek from memory) to the modern melody (that they do at the Jerusalem Patriarchate--Orthodox--but that I learned from a Chevetogne Publication (Byzantine Catholic) and then switched to English and Slavonic versions of God Grant You  Many Years at the end--what fun !
Our church is Melkite, I know more Greek and Old Slavonic than Arab, but the community is varied and the Ukrainians were pleased.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 31, 2015 11:53 PM
>To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: [Magdalen] 31 December 2015 - Beth and George Conant-Lambert
>
>This afternoon at 3:30 pm our daughter Elizabeth Jane Conant and George
>Herbert Lambert were married at St Andrew's Mountain Community Center in
>Mountain Mission, West Virginia.  My first cousin, the Rev. Marilyn Hein
>(PCUSA), officiated.
>
>We are now tired and blessed.
>
>Kate
>
>Happy New Year / Happy St. Basil's Day on January 1
>
>
>
>"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
>humbly with your God?"
>Micah 6:8