[Magdalen] Happy Saint Benedict's Day

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, yarmulke, skull cap, beanie (sans propeller)--all pretty much the
same thing!

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A skull cap.  Sorry I didn't respond sooner.  We're all still in Facebook
> General Synod Land.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
>
> On 7/13/2016 3:25 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>
>> Remind me? What's a zuchetta? I assume it's not a variety of squash...
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Present at our GS were two of the cutest fellows I've seen in a very
>>> long time, real cutey-patooties with mischievous faces.  They were,
>>> however, in habits.  Someone said Canon Benedictines.  All black, with a
>>> sort of over tunic, a token cowl, and a zucchetta. Can you enlighten me?
>>>
>>> Marion a pilgrim
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/11/2016 1:20 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>>>> Some monasteries built just before the Vatican II changes have side
>>>> altars that were not used for long, or never used. I'm fascinated with
>>>> these where they exist. Two such places are the crypt of the monastery
>>>> church at St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota; and the side
>>>> chapels off the side aisle at St. Gregory's Abbey in Three Rivers, MI.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I have an episcopalian priest friend, formerly a Benedictine (TEC
>>>>> priest now probably 25+ years) who described his life in the monastery of
>>>>> individual daily mass, said by each member of the community at "their own"
>>>>> small side altars which lined both sides of the nave -10 on each side. Also
>>>>> something difficult to imagine even in the '50s.
>>>>>
>>>>
>


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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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