[Magdalen] Rejoicing

[Jay Weigel]

Sorry to say it, Christopher, but yes.


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:37 PM Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jay,
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> I'm just wondering, without mentioning names, whether the priest who made
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> such a mess is the one that they called from my diocese with such glowing
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> reports and high hopes at the time. I know we corresponded about her at the
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> time.
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>  That was quite a while back so it may have been someone else after her.
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> Just curious.
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have neglected to mention that my former parish, All Saints',
> Morristown,
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> > TN (with which I am still in touch) recently called a new priest. This is
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> > after several years of turmoil following the retirement of the last one,
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> > who left the place in a financial mess and precipitated a serious
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> > membership decline. (She was pretty much responsible for that, as well as
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> > the financial mess) The place was kept going with the help of interims,
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> > Deacons Jim and Gigi Sharp (about whom more in a moment), and a dedicated
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> > core of members. At one point in their search process they were given
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> > permission by the bishop to extend a call to their then-interim, but he
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> > threw a spanner into the works just as they were about to do so by
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> > announcing that he had accepted another interim appointment, so they had
> to
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> > start over from scratch! That was almost 2 years ago. But at last they
> have
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> > a priest, the Rev. Mark Holland. He arrived about three weeks ago.
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> > In the meantime, during that incredibly interminable interim, a couple of
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> > things happened. One was that a longtime friend, Sarai Wender, who I've
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> > known since she arrived there as a somewhat wild teenager and who I
> watched
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> > grow up, settle down, get married, and become a nurse and the mother of
> two
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> > delightful young ladies (now grown), studied and has become a vocational
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> > deacon. (As aside note, this is at least the 4th person I know from the
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> > healing professions who has gone that route...it seems a natural one!)
> And,
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> > as kind of a punctuation to the whole thing, Jim and Gigi Sharp, after
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> > incredibly long journeys through the diaconate (Jim's lasted, if I am
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> > counting correctly, over 20 years), were ordained to the priesthood just
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> > before Christmas and Jim has been assigned as PIC to the small church
> down
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> > the road in Newport, TN.
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> > So all seems well there at last!
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> --
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> Christopher Hart
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