[Magdalen] Multiply married clergy (was Re: Lasted a little longer...)

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/12/2016 4:52:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:

I was  kind of weirded
out by what they'd done to the internal architecture also.  I only knew one
person there when I last visited, but it was again the same  friendly
neighborhood church it had been in my  childhood.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
I wa attracted to the congregation at Saint Andrew's, too, and it was
there I was confirmed by +Halluck.  Sabin+ was Rector there
then.  His famous line:  "The only difference between the RCC  and
the Anglicans is the Pope.  The Pope."
 
The church had a wonderfully proportioned high altar on the classical
three steps, with a tabernacle built into the retable of the  limestone
structure.  All the arrangement needed was a tall altarpiece to  replace
the long dossal curtain.
 
The present pipe organ, that occupies the area of this now removed
altar has an arresting oak case with carved wooden pipeshades.  It  is
stunning, but I dislike it where it is located and resent the  destruction
of a really splendid sanctuary.
 
Incidently, scandalous by today's standards, the Saint Andrews Choir,
mostly music faculty from UW-Madison, routinely sang the Oldroyd
for the Ordinary.  It was heavenly to a small town Methodist  boy.  I
didn't feel deprived for participation at all.
 
 
David S.