[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Marion Thompson]

Very funny, and true, too!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 1/7/2016 6:10 PM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
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> 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
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> -----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:
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>>  generous clouds of incense
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> 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
>