[Magdalen] Rejoicing

[Grace Cangialosi]

Especially in TEC!

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 8:19 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ...I'm telling you guys- 1 degree of separation. ; )
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> Lynn
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> On Feb 14, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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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