[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Jim Guthrie]

Two notes on incense:

We were at Trinity Wall Street some years ago and for the occasion they were 
using incense (rare in those days there) and the fire alarm went off.  We also 
experienced this at Smokey Mary's one time -- Fr. Gerth made the point that the 
fire department had just finished their annual inspection in must not have known 
how things worked. The Sexton disconnected it and the service went on The TWS 
service just went on despite the alarm -- though it was turned off after a few 
minute.

Then there was the instance of Bishop Paul +Moore of blessed memory. He was 
celebrating an installation of brothers in a monastic order at a snake-belly 
parish in White Plains. When the procession began, the Rector looked devastated 
as copious amounts of incense filled the nave.

And at the end of the procession -- before the fist prayer, Bishop +Moore turned 
to the appalled Rector and remarked, "You know, once it gets into the wood, you 
can never get rid of it."

Cheers,
Jim


-----Original Message----- 
From: Eleanor Braun
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 2:28 PM
To: Magdalen
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