[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Eleanor Braun]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  generous clouds of incense


Yesterday our Epiphany service was turned into an ordination of our
assistant rector into the sacred order of priests.  We don't use incense
much, but we censed the nave before the service just to have a bit of the
scent lingering.  Instead, it set off the fire alarms, which could not be
turned off until the fire department showed up.  Fortunately this didn't
happen during the service, and we got through all that before the
processional with our suffragan bishop, +Gayle Harris.

Unlike when our ordinary, +Alan Gates, visited last June, and the fire
alarm went off because the smoke from hamburger grilling went straight into
the air intake system.  Great smoke alarm noise during communion.  It took
about 15 minutes for the fire department to arrive, figure it out, and turn
off the alarm.  Bishop Gates took everything calmly, asked the organist if
he had anything that could be used to accompany the alarm.  Unfortunately,
no.

Undoubtedly now St Mary's, Barnstable has a reputation in the diocesan
office as a really hot place!

Eleanor