[Magdalen] Song of Mary

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

The use of lay ministers to give both kinds of elements at the service can
speed things up quite a bit.  Just because something takes a long time does
not make that a good thing.

My parish is a tiny one, so our rector can give everybody the wafer and it
really doesn't take much time because of the small group present. If we can
send a lay minister to a home with both kinds of elements, there's no
reason it can't be done at the regular service.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I remember Perren+ saying that the hardest "sell" of weekly Eucharist was
> the concern of it taking "so long" to communicate everyone. He was involved
> in the last prayerbook revision.
> Lynn
>
> On Jan 22, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Then there's the weird (to me) practice in some parishes back then
> whereby they'd have two identical Morning Prayer services on a Sunday.
> Here's an old bulletin:
>
> https://philadelphiastudies.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1608
> 04-125450-page-006.jpg
>
> This happened from time to time at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in
> Detroit under a previous dean.
>
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > When I was in Michigan--St. James in Birmingham--Eucharist was only the
> first Sunday of the month, though on those days we called it Holy Communion.
> > We sang the canticles in Anglican chant, used the Myerbeck (?) setting
> for Communion, and on special days we used the Healy Willan setting. That
> was my favorite!
> > I sang in the junior choir from 1954-57, when we left to go to Getmany.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>