[Magdalen] Greetings

[Lesley de Voil]

Here in sunny Queensland, we had a good congregation for the one morning
service of Advent IV, then increased numbers for each of our three
Christmas services - Vigil Mass at 7.15pm, High Mass at 11.30pm, and Sung
Mass at 8.30am on Christmas morning. Many young visitors at all services.
The storms on Christmas Eve evening were so isolated that we didn’t receive
any in the city itself. However, the whole of SouthEast Qld was drenched by
>2inches  on Monday night. I’ve spent time this morning (Tuesday) cleaning
up our. pool as a lot of leaf and flower litter was blown into it during
the evening.
As well as the services themselves, we had a community carol-sing before
the High Mass. Our Rector took pains to make sure there were no repetitions
of any carols or hymns through all the services. I just discovered a
half-hour ago that the one favourite of mine that he had left out, was the
one featured as the intro to the Queen’s Christmas Message - It Came Upon
The Midnight Clear!
I hope we all have had an  enjoyable Christmas Day.
Best wishes to all
Lesley de Voil

On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 at 10:30, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our attendance at both services was about half of what it was last year,
> and at least half of those at the second service were visitors or C&E
> people.
> Quite a few of our regular families were out of town. Also, we had one
> morning service for Advent 4, and most of the folks who were there did not
> come back in the evening. I wonder if that might have been the case in
> other places.
>
> > On Dec 25, 2017, at 11:58 AM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Mahoney, W. Michael <
> wmmah at stoneledge.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> A blessed Christmas to all.
> >>
> >> Our midnight service was quite nice but sparsely attended.  It seems
> that
> >> it was only a few years ago that it would have been packed.  Are others
> >> seeing the same trend?
> >>
> >
> > ​We had about 100 this year vs 125 last year - but several families​ were
> > away on trips.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > P. Dan Brittain
> > Harrison, Arkansas
> >
>
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