[rodgersorganusers] Re: Sundays' events (11/9)

  • From: "Richard Torlai" <rltorlai@xxxxxxx>
  • To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:51:59 -0500

Ah yes, a typical Sunday at the organ!

Well done!
I haven't had one of those Sundays yet, instead I've swapped the Gloria for 
the Doxology and had some interesting looks as I did that.

Rich


>From: Illjane@xxxxxxx
>Reply-To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [rodgersorganusers] Sundays' events (11/9)
>Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:57:26 EST
>
>
>    The crisis for this Sunday.
>    This Sunday was not communion at the traditional service.  Living Word
>uses the Green Lutheran Worship hymnal.  It suggests that the prayers be 
>moved
>each time there is communion or not and this has been causing troubles.  
>The
>secretary forgets sometimes to change it in the bulletin.  Fortunately, I, 
>the
>organist, take my cue from the Pastor - wherever he goes, I follow.  Well, 
>I was
>prepared to play the anthem which we sing while the offering is collected
>when Pastor skips to the prayers.  So, I hurried back to the organ from the
>synthesizer  ready to ding as he reads the prayers of the deceased (which 
>he forgot
>to do last Sunday for all Saints day)  He read two names, not four, then
>immediately started "saying" the Lord's Prayer.  Well, the church had 
>requested
>that we sing the Malotte Lord's Prayer once a month, and we had already 
>missed a
>whole month with his doing that, or our forgetting, so, I started playing 
>on
>top of the speaking.   The congregation figured it out and sang along.  
>Then
>Pastor gave the benediction.  At which time the choir members were waving 
>their
>music in the air to let him know that they did not sing their anthem 
>because
>he did not have them collect the offering.  The whole congregation started
>talking until the choir started the anthem!
>           Well, maybe we need to put the prayers in a more consistent 
>place -
>not to be changed for communion or not?
>                                              Jane
>
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