[Magdalen] A question for you... I am curious...

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 05:50:07 UTC 2017


I'm sure Jim Guthrie would have had something to say about this. I recall
that he once put dry ice only into the thurible and when it got started,
the usual suspects had their coughing fits, incense or no incense.

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 Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We may have the greatest number of COPD claimants ever assembled in one
> place. ;-)
>
> Marion, an incense-addicted pilgrim
>
>
> On 6/20/2017 11:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>>
>> However, there is the well known pan-Anglican intolerance
>> of incense.  They've done experiments with thurible and
>> boat with real incense but no coals, and some in the
>> congregations still went into the hyper-sniffles.
>>   Maybe you've already caught that!
>>   This is not to say incense cannot be overdone, but only to
>> show that a lot of reaction to it is deep-rooted Protestant
>> intrinsic distrust of "fancy" liturgy.
>>       David S.
>>
>>
>> .
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