See, this is why churchgoers, such as Kim and I, ought not go on vacation, because when they get back...
...at the following Sunday's service, they find out that their pastor has been transferred after 11 months on the job back to the parish he had been at until a year ago, and then they (or less informed of the they) find out that he had actually never moved from the house (or perhaps rectory) near his old church, presumably with the expectation that he would eventually be transferred back.
It seems that everyone, Father included, believes this is for the best, so I can safely say yay new Bishop and his decision for Father's relocation.
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However.
Rumor says Father New is very litergically, um, uncontemporary (and pro-Latin), so I wonder how he will take to (a) handbells and particularly (b) handbell pieces such as "Ordinary Time Ordinariness." But for reasons I won't get into right now, I might not have kept my position under old Father, so we'll take our chances with Father New.
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My accidental present to Father Old.
The two competed parts of my mass setting premiered sans choir yesterday and with choir today. Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, with at least five people (outside of the music program, even) seeking me out to say not only that it was great but that I need to write more of it now now now (plus another 10 or so with general positive comments).
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
