[Magdalen] A brighter note?

[Roger Stokes]

gifted as an adjective has also been around a long time which implies 
the existence of the verb.Merrion-Webster suggests it's been around 400 
years.

Roger

On 08/06/2021 19:20, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> OK, I stand corrected. However, it seems that it has only recently been used that way with any frequency.
>
>> On Jun 8, 2021, at 1:05 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Gift, as a transitive verb, is in my 1974 edition of the Concise Oxford
>> Dictionary. I occasionally find its usage awkward, but not incorrect.
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 12:38 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My personal teeth grinder is the word gift used as a verb! Where did that
>>> come from??
>>>
>>>>> On Jun 8, 2021, at 12:16 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I felt the same way when first receiving the sacrament again - bread
>>> only.
>>>> We have been every Sunday worshippers since early in our marriage and
>>> now,
>>>> that hole is once again filled.
>>>>
>>>> Using disciple as a very is as bad as using fellowship thusly.  Teeth
>>> itch
>>>> time!
>>>>
>>>> Ginga
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:42 AM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> According to the Bishop's instruction, the priest consecrates at the
>>> altar
>>>>> and then moves up the aisle dropping (not placing) the wafer into our
>>>>> outstretched hands. It seems to be working fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was surprised by the extreme drama of my emotional reaction when I
>>>>> received for the first time in over a year. Was driving home, had to
>>> pull
>>>>> over in Kenmore Square. Cried like a three-year-old.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW I got an online ad/invitation to an evangelical start-up in the
>>> area.
>>>>> It used "disciple" as a verb.
>>>>> -M, flabbergasted
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 4:15 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I’m interested in knowing how you distributed communion. We’re still
>>> not
>>>>>> having folks come forward, but are distributing the wafers in
>>> individual
>>>>>> paper condiment cups at the point in the service where the Peace takes
>>>>>> place. At the point in the Eucharistic prayer where the Holy Spirit is
>>>>>> invoked, people hold the wafers up, and I bless them. We consume them
>>>>>> together at the usual place in the service after the words “The gifts
>>> of
>>>>>> God…”
>>>>>> I know people are handling this in all sorts of ways, but this was what
>>>>>> was done at an Easter Vigil service I attended, and it seems sound. I
>>>>> don’t
>>>>>> think my folks are ready to come to the rail yet.
>>>>>> Did Georgia put the wafers directly into people’s hands?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is she going to be your interim?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Christopher Hart
>>
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