[Magdalen] Fwd: Re: silence?

[Michael Bishop]

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Subject: 	Re: [Magdalen] silence?
Date: 	Sun, 15 Oct 2017 20:56:18 +0100
From: 	Michael Bishop <rev at michaelbishop.name>
Reply-To: 	rev at michaelbishop.name
To: 	Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com>



I am here. For me it has been a time of great change. I retired from the
stipendiary ministry just a month ago and of course had to move home as
well - a major change after almost 21 years as rector of my 8 parishes
in the diocese of Derby (England). I now live in a bungalow in the
neighbouring county of Nottinghamshire (Diocese of Southwell &
Nottingham). The parish I live in is Keyworth which is a large village
to which are yoled the neighbouring small rural parishes of
Stanton-on-the-Wolds and Bunny. I hope in due course to take up some
retired ministry in the area - but the rule here is that retired clergy
are expected to take 6 months out of active ministry after retirement.
Life seems very strange with no rushing about taking services and it
will certainly take quite a time to adjust.
Listsibs may be interested to know that just up the road from me is the
village of Gotham - presumably the source of the name which passed on
somehow to Gotham City of Superman fame. This Gotham is however,
pronounced Goatham. Locally it is a place of which there are many tales
about the "Wise men of Gotham"
One tale is that the three wise men of Gotham found a cuckoo. They
wanted to keep it so they planted a bush round it to stop it leaving -
but the bird flew out from the top! The local pub is named "The Cuckoo Bush"
There is also a popular rhyme about them:
Three wise men of Gotham
went to sea in a bowl
Had the bowl been stronger
My tale would have been longer!


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God bless

Michael Bishop
rev at michaelbishop.name

On 15/10/2017 20:40, Marilyn Cepeda wrote:
> I am here. I am here in Scotland that is. We visited St Columba’s
> Footsteps, the well, and the coastline of Kintyre Peninsula. One
> serendipitous unplanned stop was abbey ruins  Saddell Abbey. Beautiful,
> special places. We are looking for hurricane Ophelia tomorrow so not sure
> what our plans will be!
>
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 5:46 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm here. I check in a couple of times a day and all I find is that my
>> gmail is inundated with everything BUT pub posts. I had a crazy week last
>> week, starting with the weekend which was consumed with the Page County
>> Heritage Festival, where we did very well, the equivalent of a good month
>> at the gallery, but I managed to get a case of heat exhaustion on the first
>> day and felt like @#$%^! the whole time. Then rock club on Monday, work at
>> the gallery on Tuesday and Wednesday, and finally I could breathe on
>> Thursday.
>>
>> I guess I can now tell that I am attending an Orthodox church in the area.
>> It's a very small Old Rite Russian Orthodox Church just up the road in Mt.
>> Jackson and I have been attending for a couple of months now and going to
>> adult study classes. I feel very much at home there and am giving serious
>> thought to being chrismated at some time in the future. The priest, Father
>> Kyrill, and his wife, Matushka Dena Theodora, are both former Episcopalians
>> who did *not* leave over things like OW or the prayer book, but simply
>> because they felt drawn to orthodoxy as I have since I was fairly young.
>> But I won't leave the Pub!
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Marion Thompson <
>> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Personally busy up to here.  Give me strength, especially to get through
>>> tomorrow:  weekly volunteer at the free breakfast at a little local bar
>> and
>>> resto 7 to 9 a.m., MP at the rectory at 9:30, funeral and reception at
>> 11,
>>> some time at home to  get cleaned up for a long drive (1 1//2 hrs) into
>> the
>>> big city for a wine and cheese the Archbishop is hosting for the
>>> now-defunct Diocesan Chaplaincy Committee of which I was a member for a
>>> whole bunch of years, then the long drive home again.
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/15/2017 8:20 AM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't had a Magdalen post since Oct 11th.  I have been in Charlotte
>>>> caring for my daughter-in-law following surgery and have not posted much
>>>> of
>>>> anything.  She (Christina) is fine.  I also visited Ginny and Barbie in
>>>> Winston Salem, NC where they have recently moved.  Ginny accepted a call
>>>> as
>>>> rector of St. Anne's Episcopal Church there.  Good to be with family all
>>>> of
>>>> whom live in NC now, and good to know that I can still drive 600 miles
>> in
>>>> three days.  John does the driving in our family but he did not go on
>> this
>>>> trip.  As for John and me, we wait for the SC Supreme Court to announce
>>>> whether they will rehear the property case and also to hear the results
>> of
>>>> mediation in both the federal case and the state case.  The Lawrence
>>>> breakaways have a PR campaign going that is maddening to follow.
>>>> Frustrating does not come close to covering the feelings I have, but
>> that
>>>> will do for now.  Our 'side' (TEC and TECSC) has chosen not to speak
>>>> publicly or to rebut what Lawrence, et al are putting out about 'us.'
>>>> GRR.
>>>>
>>>> Off to church.
>>>> Ginga
>>>>
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>>>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Did the list disappear while I was gone?  Is Brian OK? Did Everyone miss
>>>>> Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
>>>>> <http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/267.html>Day?  It falls on
>> our
>>>>> wedding anniversary so I remember.  If I manage to say the morning
>>>>> office I
>>>>> will remember, too, because it is commemorated by OJN.
>>>>>
>>>>> My love to you all.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
>>>>> Western Michigan
>>>>>
>>>>>