[Magdalen] Clergy-musician dispute redux.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

That's very sad.  I bet he is dealing with some other difficulties and this
is just one thing he can actually do something about.  But very sad. People
have always done things a certain way and bristle when they keep seeing
changes, and to them, it's just one loss after another, I suppose.

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 Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I once had a parishioner walk out just before an Advent service; he
> checked all the hymn numbers and saw there were no Christmas carol!
> I learned later that that was just the last straw--he and his wife had
> gone to her Lutheran church earlier that morning, as they always did, and
> they didn't have any Christmas carols, either!  He said he wasn't coming
> back--and he never did!
>
> > On Jun 12, 2017, at 10:15 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good heavens! And that's why "Catholics can't sing", I guess. ~smdh~
> Music
> > has caused me to leave, or at least decide not to attend, more than one
> > church. I guess RCs don't have that choice, though. They're "assigned" to
> > the parish they live in, more or less. Although my aunt, who was a
> convert,
> > absolutely refused to attend the church behind their building in NYC,
> which
> > was supposedly their parish church, because she could not stand the
> priest,
> > and she and my uncle went farther downtown to another parish.
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I usually associate clergy-musician disputes with
> >> Anglicans and Protestants, but there's been a sad
> >> dispute chapter played out locally at one of the large
> >> Roman Catholic churches.
> >>
> >> The organist of this parish and his wife, who were organist
> >> and choir directors respectively, are leaving their positions
> >> which they have held for 31+ years.  It's the old situation
> >> where a new pastor arrived, and he "disliked music," and
> >> in particular "hated" the pipe organ which the church had just
> >> rebuilt for $250,000.
> >>
> >> The pastor first stuck the organist with being the church
> >> janitor in addition to his musical duties, and a not so veiled
> >> attempt to get the organist out.  The constant bickering has
> >> taken it's toll.
> >>
> >> There "will be no music at all" this summer, followed by
> >> whomever he can come up with in rhe autumn.  This is not
> >> only un-Christian, but non-canonical.   Most
> >> Episcopal priests I know of are angels compared to this
> >> pastor.
> >>
>