[Magdalen] Greetings

Kristin Rollins kristin at verumsolum.com
Tue Dec 26 12:13:05 UTC 2017


It was a quiet Christmas here.

We went to a former (and perhaps soon-to-be-again) parish, opting for their 8pm. My desire to rather be an hour early than five minutes late was a good thing. I think we arrived around 7:30 or 7:35 and as I passed the associate rector (who had hired me as an organist when he was the interim in another parish), he said to me "Good luck finding a seat." Fortunately, I had dropped Heather at the door a couple of minutes earlier, and she had secured seats for us. And during the first hymn, a folding chair was added in the aisle beside me.

It was good to be in a familiar church with familiar people (One choir member gave Heather and I each a huge hug on the way out afterward.) And the music was well-led and good without being fussy. Though I can't comment too much on the anthem, my hearing of it being affected by an enthusiastic young child on the other side of Heather.

Kristin

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  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Chesapeake, VA

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017, at 1:00 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
> First time we missed MM in many a year, but it's too difficult now we live
> so far out of town. Keith played organ for Advent 4 at St Johns early on
> Sunday morning...yesterday morning we attended a simple but joyful service
> at the little farm chapel down the road, St Albans. Lovely carols, chosen
> to be a bit different...Good Christian Men, Rejoice! ...and an absolute
> favourite of mine, the Calypso Carol. I really love that.
> 
> Retired priest came out to celebrate, our clergy here do not seem to retire
> from that until they really are too frail to cope with it. His sermon
> wandered sbout a bit, loosely organised around "Mary pondered all these
> things and treasured them in her heart", a wonderful side note to the
> Nativity story with a lot to offer a preacher.
> 
> Then a busy day with food as my family came out here for lunch.
> 
> Looking forward to a peaceful Boxing Day (known as Family Day here) then
> it's back to work tomorrow
> 
> Sally D
> 
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 at 4:47 AM Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> > We had a fairly sparsely attended Advent 4 in the morning (about 17), but
> > most of our folks came back. Our only service was 4:30, and we had about
> > 100. Lots and lots of kids, pretty chaotic, lots of fun. I attended a 10 pm
> > service at another church, and it was sparse, maybe 16.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 7:30 PM 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > Ann
> >
> > The Rev. Ann Markle
> > Buffalo, NY
> > www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
> >


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