[Magdalen] Greetings

[Joseph Cirou]

Why don't you connect to Youtube. I watched Christmas from Paris and Cologne--all very  beautiful Roman Catholic services. I have many other choices; also Orthodox and Episcopal and high church Lutheran and Methodist--Duke Chapel.  

I am listening/watching Polish carol from Warsaw

Joe




-----Original Message-----
>From: Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 26, 2017 12:54 PM
>To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Greetings
>
>I'm still not able to drive, and S/O not church-inclined, so I stayed home
>and "went to church" via tv at Marble Collegiate in NYC. It was a lovely
>service of lessons and carols and the sermon was excellent. I'm still
>unhappy that our cable offerings don't include WGN so I could "attend" the
>midnight mass at the RC cathedral. That was always a feature of our
>Christmases in TN, my late ex and my choir buddy Sheila being
>ex-RC....reveling in the choir offerings, checking out the way it was done,
>and critiquing (sometimes trashing) the sermon. I really miss that.
>
>On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>>   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
>> > >
>>