[Magdalen] Quiet

[Ginga Wilder]

It seems what I do anymore is watch MSNBC and get depressed about our
national situation with an immoral divisive president.  Chuck Todd just
interviewed The Rev Fmr Sen John Danforth.  He's calling the Republican
party to repudiate Trump - as a first step to righting this nation.

We saw DUNKIRK today.  OMG!  What a movie!

One of our parishioners died yesterday, funeral Monday.  Linda was a tad
older than me, had ovarian cancer that was diagnosed immediately following
her husbands successful surgery and treatment for bladder cancer.  Her
cancer was not arrested and she died in a few months.

I am feeling a lot of compassion for those who followed Mark Lawrence out
of the Episcopal Church 5 years ago.  Lay people especially.  They believed
their clergy and lay leaders and now are facing consequences.  There seems
to be so much ill will against The Episcopal Church and local Episcopalians
to even consider reconciliation right now.  That will take lots of time to
be worked through in their hearts.  May God be merciful.  The deadline for
the Lawrence church's request to the SC Supreme Court to rehear the
property case is a week from today.  They will do that.  Most people on
both sides of this decision believe that request will be denied.  sigh.

It's rainy too, which is also blue weather.

Blue,
Ginga

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> LOL  A lonely outpost of Anglo-Catholicism, so half the congregation would
> happily say;  the other half would reveal their Protestant bias, their
> Presbyterian or United Church roots.  One or two have left, having failed
> to convert the Incumbent.  :-) Incense, sadly, is infrequent = What a
> remarkably high percentage of people with COPD we have in our congregation!
>
> A few of us say 'mass'; most don't, I assure you.  I like to slip it in
> and get people accustomed to it.  There have never been more than five of
> us at Compline, so we are not bothering anyone.  On the other hand, the BVM
> certainly gets her due on her special Days!   Don't we belt out 'Mary we
> hail you. full of God's favour'!  (It's a singing congregation, which is
> refreshing!  They even cope with the plainchant Psalm each week)  Although
> our choir is small and fluctuating in attendance, we often sing Latin
> motets AND I'm fascinated by our use of the Anglican Use Gradual which
> studs our liturgy with plainchant.  As I arrived at the same time as our
> Incumbent, I don't know how things were in the previous regime, but I
> really doubt it was in use before that moment; the books are too new.  He
> and our organist (who is RC but involved in many parts of the musical world
> out there) are kindred spirits -- there is peace and happiness in music
> land!  How about that?!
>
> Happily,
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
>
> On 8/25/2017 4:03 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 8/25/2017 2:27:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> marionwhitevale at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> We  finish with Compline and sing Salve Regina.  With
>> morning prayer  three mornings a week and the weekly  mass,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>     You must be in an upper fringe of Anglicanism.  Locally, the
>> Procathedral
>> congregation put up such an uproar over using the R. Proulx  "Community
>> Mass" simply because it was entitled "Mass."  It's use was  discontinued.
>>   I therefore cannot imagine the "Salve Regina" being sung in any form,
>> Latin or English.  While I was in the Procathedral choir, we got by
>> chanting the
>> Eastertide Marian Antiphon, 'Regina Coeli," because we chanted in  Latin,
>> and half covered our mouths for the last line, "Ora pro nobis..."   Such
>> tricks!    I'll bet even the Blessed Virgin was giggling  over that one.
>>       David S.
>>
>>
>