[Magdalen] Brightest and Best - The Epiphany, January 6, 2016.

[anthony clavier]

I too love Brightest and Best although it conjures up visions of Victorians
gathered around a harmonium, gas lights flickering.

Tony

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Epiphany is special for me too. 37 years ago today Lisa and I were married.
>
> On Wednesday, January 6, 2016, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > The concept of the Epiphany was a complete unknown to me when I
> entered
> > > TEC in the Diocese of Milwaukee in 1958 (though I'd been attending an
> > > Episcopal church sporadically for a couple years before that).
> > >
> >
> > Epiphany is special for me.
> >
> > Twenty-four years ago, I came home from our evening Epiphany service and
> > drank up the last of the vodka, bourbon, and scotch in the house.  It was
> > the last time I have had any alcohol other than an occasional sip or
> > taste.  The next morning I reported to and became a volunteered in a
> > National Institutes Institute of Health experimental, in-patient
> alcoholism
> > treatment program.
> >
> > The treatment, *qua* experiment, proved not to be much of a success
> though,
> > as it turned out, I did not receive the medical and experimental
> component
> > anyway.  But three weeks in the hospital did successfully wean me
> >
> > So Epiphany reminds me of a major turning point in my life.
> >
> > Mike M.
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Christopher Hart
>
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-- 
The Rev. Tony Clavier
Vicar: St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Glen Carbon IL
and St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Granite City IL