[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Marion Thompson]

Our smoke alarms are in wooden boxes such that the side  can be fastened 
shut for incense use then let down again after the service.  That was 
learned the hard way.  Repeated fire dept visits for nothing can be 
expensive!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 1/7/2016 2:28 PM, Eleanor Braun wrote:
> 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
>