[Magdalen] Easter Vigil.

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> If your parish had observance of the Easter Vigil in 1954 it must
> have been a very enlightened forward thinking parish.
>

It may be that, stretching my memory back 63 years, I have changed the
service in my mind.  Or perhaps what was done was not quite what became the
text in our 1979 prayer book.  But it was outside; it was dark and cold;
and he did use a Zippo.  And whatever it was, it hadn't been done under his
predecessor.

Fred Wolf was among a bunch of young clergy who came out of Seabury Western
shortly after World War II and who were determined to pursue the high
Anglo-Catholic tradition.  Several of them became bishops (Wolf,
Montgomery, Hillestead, for example).

I wonder how far back Ascension (Chicago) was doing the Vigil.

Mike M