[Magdalen] We have a new bishop!

[Ginga Wilder]

Great report, Chad!!  I watched the video Saturday afternoon.  It is long
and it is also joy is palpable through the electrons.  The new Rt. Rev.
Shannon MacVean-Brown is a lovely woman who also is filled with joy.  God
bless her in her new position and God bless you and Lee as you serve with a
new bishop in your midst.

Ginga Wilder

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 9:41 PM Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> Yesterday my dear wife & I attended the consecration of Shannon
> MacVean-Brown as the 11th bishop of Vermont, at the Ira Allen Chapel at
> UVM in Burlington. (Our cathedral wasn't big enough).
>
> It was quite a service, although also quite long. A highlight was the
> presence of a gospel choir from (of all places) Plattsburgh State, just
> across the lake. It indeed was quite a big and joyous occasion.
>
> You can watch it online at https://diovermont.org/ if you like. I
> haven't seen it, as, after all, I was there in person. Lee, who has
> watched much of it, says that being there in person was definitely
> better - she suspects that the Chapel wasn't really set up for
> recording, sound-wise. Anyway, she says that both she & I are visible at
> times in the audience. You can easily find Lee as she's the only clergy
> person with long grey hair. I am there sitting right in the middle of
> the row immediately in back of the clergy (in one of two rows reserved
> for clergy spouses). All priests were asked to wear cassock & surplice,
> which Lee wasn't all that happy with. She, of course, hadn't worn that
> get-up for a good number of years and, needless to say, the cassock
> didn't fit (a very common complaint among the clergy, apparently). But,
> they all managed, apparently, and the cassock & surplice makes it easy
> to pick out the clergy in the video.
>
> Everything seemed to work out OK, although as I was walking from the car
> to the chapel I came upon our deacon on her cell phone. Seems she had
> forgotten her alb and she was supposed to be the Deacon of the Table.
> She was calling her daughter, who lives in Waterbury (~45 minutes away)
> to bring it. Maybe that's why the wanted us all there really early? In
> any event, she was wearing an alb when setting up the altar, so somehow
> it turned out OK.
>
> Afterwards we hung around for awhile - I got to help Barbara Harris get
> undressed <g>. We were among the last to arrive at the reception, and we
> didn't get home until 6PM, after being out since 7:30 that morning.
>
> Oh, and Lee got to join ~100 clergy (didn't know there were that many in
> Vermont!) for lunch with Michael Curry the day before, while I went to
> the Red Cross to give blood and then spend too much $$$ on jazz records
> at the local record store.
>
> And, needless to say, we both had a long and very sound sleep last
> night.
>
> --
> Chad Wohlers
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> Woodbury, VT   USA
>