[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Lynn Ronkainen]

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

I was not there the morning that the Cathedral sprinkler system for the nave 
only went into high gear at the 9am at the end of the summer.... water 
EVERYWHERE and sirens which brought the fire department. It was a 
malfunction, not a fire.  The altar needed to be refinished, the 20 handmade 
exquisite needlepoint kneelers at the altar, communion rail and on the 
bishop's chair had to be opened up, professionally cleaned and re-put 
together.... and as soon as Lent beings I start repairing and re-stretching 
the 12' dupioni silk altar superfrontal with a detailed 80 year old Japanese 
silk embroidery or wending and winding shamrocks, that I transferred to the 
current silk 15 years ago....

Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Eleanor Braun" <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 1:28 PM
To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

> 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