[Magdalen] Rejoicing

[Jay Weigel]

Well, Jo, it's my *former* parish, but I still have ties there as I have
many, many friends there. And I didn't know he was your former rector. Wow!

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:30 PM Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't it a small, Episcopal world. Here we are at St. James BR with
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> Lynn's former dean as our interim, and our former rector, Mark+, at
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> Jay's parish...
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> I wish Mark+ and All Saints' all the best.
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> Peace,
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> Jo
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> On 02/14/2017 2:50 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
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> > Sorry to say it, Christopher, but yes.
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> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:37 PM Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >> 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',
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> >> 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
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> >> to
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> >>> start over from scratch! That was almost 2 years ago. But at last they
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> >> 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
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> >> watched
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> >>> grow up, settle down, get married, and become a nurse and the mother of
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> >> 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!)
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> >> 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
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> >> 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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> >> List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
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> >> Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
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> >> Twitter: @cervus51
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