[Magdalen] Where are we

[Marion Thompson]

I, too, am Zooming.  Last week there was a big get-together with my
old singing group (the Island City Singers) from Montreal days, some 39 of
us turned out!  I enjoy getting together with The Marion Singers each week,
or at least with the founding and longer-standing members.  Church meetings
on Zoom, of course.  And most notably, I'm a faithful follower of St.
Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, thanks to Ferdinand's invitation to Corpus
Christi many months ago.  There's a lot to follow!  Morning Prayer,
meditations by the River, Bible study, Thursday Eucharist  and, of course,
the Sunday service and occasional others of Evening Prayer, Benediction,
etc., all presented by the Provost from the Upper Room of Seabury House.
(It's a long story)  Truth to tell, it is all more satisfying than my live
church with our new priest who has dumbed it all down (in my view) and I
turn up because I have to, being a warden

Marion, a pilgrim

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 03:49, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> I am still here in Bedford, UK as we near the end of this crazy year.
> Like many people I have a number of school-related Zoom (and other
> platforms) meetings but they are now over until next term. We have a
> socially-distanced Eucharist on Wednesdays and Sundays. After the second
> lockdown of the year we emerged to a stricter Tier Two of restrictions
> but at midnight we will be going into the strictest of the levels, Tier
> Three, though it will have little effect on me. That is being relaxed
> over Christmas when I will be travelling (alone in my car as usual) to
> see my son and his family so I will share it with two grandchildren, two
> dogs, cats who generally ignore us and chickens who are currently penned
> up because of bird flu in the country.
>
> On the brighter side I have found three benefits from the pandemic.
> First I don't have to travel between meetings, which also tied to be
> more sharply focussed. Secondly I appreciate the quieter time before
> services. Thirdly we now have a daily Zoom service of Morning Prayer (in
> a few minutes so I must fire up my laptop) when I can use my desktop
> computer for ther texts which is a LOT better than having to flick
> between sections of a book or three.
>
> Roger
>
> On 18/12/2020 01:58, Judy Fleener wrote:
> > Do we still exist? I started looking for posts a couple of days ago in
> > between zooming.  I am not a frequent poster, but I miss the chatter.
> > Judy
> >
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