[Magdalen] A brighter note?

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

There are quite a few very old words that I do not use.

Nor listen to, if I can avoid them.

Mike M

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 2:58 PM Roger Stokes <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
> >> Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
> >> Twitter: @cervus51
>
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