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To: bboop
It's quite a drive from LA to Atlanta, but if you change planes here on a Sunday, ping me!

I never heard the Nicene Creed spoken in a Protestant Church.

Of course in the Episcopal Church (which used to be called officially "The Protestant Episcopal Church in America") we said the Nicene Creed every Sunday, but then again we were "just one step from Rome". It's in the BCP communion service, though, so even the most protestant variety of Episcopalians say it every Sunday (or at least they're supposed to).

Don't give up hope re your music. Make sure whichever member of the clergy is in charge of the music program knows who you are and that you are very "musical". Then bide your time until the organist retires or gets a job offer from another church. Then get yourself put on the search committee.

I didn't actually plan that scheme out ahead of time, but that's how it worked out here. We used to have a music director here who was a very nice man personally but far too fond of OCP and Haugen/Haas dreck. I met the deacon in charge of the music program while he was teaching the class for parents of confirmands, and we got to talking about music quite a bit (he was a music major in college). So he asked me to sit on the search committee when the music director took a job at another church, and the rest is history (and much better music).

73 posted on 06/13/2009 5:49:29 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Oh, yes, search committee. A wonderful idea. Capt Ahab should retire one of these days, and it won’t be a moment too soon.

Atlanta is not tooo awfully far, for good music. Neither is Rome. Our good Pope has done wonderful things there, with the Sistine Choir.


77 posted on 06/14/2009 5:33:07 AM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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