[Magdalen] Life's blessings

[Lynn Ronkainen]

If "we" is the Episcopal church my observation has for years been the desire that the dioceses would align their procedures for vocation and call. Each diocese and Diocesan IS like a little pope. That our national church calls priests for the "whole" church and each diocese often plays fast and loose with policies and procedures for who has a vocation doesn't does us a disservice. IMNSHO. 
Lynn 



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On Oct 21, 2016, at 8:37 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

I think I've said this before,
but anyway ...
I have several friends who were denied ordination,
and some of them were terribly wounded by the experience.
A couple of them have had very nasty passive-aggressive
relations with the church, maybe as a kind of revenge.
Or else the committee & bishop made a good call.
Not sure which.

I wish the church did a better job with the aftermath/fallout.
But the tendency is to drop people HARD and then turn away.

One of my friends (most assuredly now held in Jesus' arms)
was of the older school, men who couldn't meet the Latin requirement.
He spent his life in the church, exercising a deaconal ministry,
and died much loved and admired by the parish.
IMO (in my observation) the RCs are much better at this than we are.
-M


On Friday, October 21, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> open the door a crack and let out some pain that lurks in the shadows.
> Isn't this all why people go to therapists and talk things out?  I could
> keep one busy for a very long time.
> 
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