[Magdalen] For Lynn

[Marion Thompson]

I'm sorry to hear your mom's  memorial service didn't go as you had 
planned it.  Some things are harder to brush off than others and I would 
have been more than a little vexed if the hymns hadn't happened as 
requested.  Just as Scott and Don each have remarked.    Grrr.  Whose 
mother was it anyway?!  No wonder people get fed-up with churches and/or 
clergy when insensitive things like this happen.  My two cents.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 4/30/2016 10:41 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> Agreed with your "um" Scott!! And with your comment as well Don.
> It was an interesting experience and I did take communion despite the large 5" square bold italics announcement, quoting RC Church canon law and concluding with a prayer that someday we may all be one set inside a double line box printed in the service leaflet between homily and the liturgy of the table.  SIGH.
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> The cantor, a woman, who followed me reading *helpfully* turned the page for the second reading even though I had already done so for my son who was supposed to follow her... So Nathan got up to the pulpit, read the page - which was now the gospel (LOL) proclaiming such, and the priest almost freaked... So there were a few things that Mom would have loved!
> Lynn
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 30, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Perhaps he had the attitude my dad expressed at one point: "Why keep
> singing all those verses once the priest has arrived at wherever he
> was going?" Um, because the whole thing is either a prayer or a
> reflection, and meant to be done completely?
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>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 6:37 PM,  <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> Lynn, I'm sorry (though not especially surprised) to hear that the organist for your mom's memorial service disappointed you.  It was easier for him to let you think he was agreeing to your request than to get into a discussion, and I am certain that, so far as he was concerned, the preferences of the priest trump those of a fallen-away family member he would never see again.  (And, of course, had he acceded to your request he might have had to keep his butt on the bench for an extra five minutes.)
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