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Show #21, Page 4 he agreed to do. Within a week after he and his crew of two, plus a local young man, Lee King, started work, floor and walls were built, windows installed and the roof was on. ' The following week the work was completed, except for the installation of the heating unit. Dick's lovely wife, Esther, and Joan joined the work · party as painters; in addition, Esther did an expert job of laying the floor tiles. And their young son, Ben, was there every day, helping his dad most efficiently. The chapel is dedicated to Our Lady of Walsingham . It is one of. the most ancient shrines in Europe, Our Lady having appeared in 1061 to the Lady Richeldis de Faverche, and asked that a replica of the Holy House of Nazareth be built there in Walsingham, Norfolk. Joan first visited this famous Anglican shrine during World War II, when she was serving in the Women's branch of the Royal Air Force. She brought back a replica of the statue of Our Lady and the Holy Child, and has always made a pilgrimage to the Shrine whenever she has been in England since then. And now, from JQan -- Hello, there ••••• I must begin by thanking, on behalf of us all at Hat Rock, those people who have contributed so generously to the furnishings of the Oratory Cltapel. our dear friend , Mrs Harriet Dmi truk of Bluff, who bought yards of blue velvet and has made them up into lovely draperies which hang each side of the reredos I Father Albert Tarbell and St Aidan's Church in Albuquerque for providing the 8 folding chairs with kneelers, which are just perfect in sizel and Mr John Parker , owner of Parker1s Inc. Office Products in Farmington, NM, and is also Senior Warden of st John's Church there, for promising the white curtains for the 2 windows. Praise the Lord for His !;oodness in giving us so many kind and generous friends. One other thing does seem needful, though, and I am wondering if there is any parish that might have stashed away a gold frontal (gold is a stand-in for all the liturgical colors as you know) that is perhaps too worn in spots for use, but too good. to throwaway. If so, it would be most gratefully received here, as it could be cut or patched to make a Jacobean 3-sided frontal (the kind with the graceful,draped corners instead of the usual boxed corners). Thank you for any bits and pieces of such material that ~u could scrounge up. Well, this is a much longer Message than usual , so I might as well make it a bit longer by adding a few personal thoughts about the question of the ordination of women to the priesthood. I 'am emboldened to do so, because I have not found, in any letters to church papers or theological essays, any consideration of this particular aspect of the question, so I'd like to present my own thoughts for your consideration. Like the preacher's attitude towards sin in the famous Calvin Coolidge anecdote, I'm against it , though f or reasons which I am only too painfully aware will evoke no reponsive chord in the minds of a large number of priests and laymen of today, oriented as they are towards the personalist, eXistentialist modern philosophies 'of idealism, subjectivism, relativism, positivism, pantheism, and quite a few other -isms. I mention them to indicate that I'm well aware of how absurd my anti-ordination reasons would appear to these Modernists. In the first place, I'm wondering if it is any |
