Enjoying your Spring break so far?
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    I'm noticing even more schedule conflicts than usual this year, having just squeezed in three extra concerts this week and turned down tickets to Garrick Olson for tonight. It's always a teachable moment, but I can't help being astonished that even choral societies that have to compete for soloists and ringers often fail to take the movable feast into account in their scheduling! Is this only a blue state phenomenon?
  • CharlesW
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    Nope. It's everywhere.
  • Kathy
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    I've been on parish staffs in different roles, and one constant has been that there's this one staff meeting in like October when somebody says, "Wait. When is Easter next spring?" And everybody flips through their liturgical planners and finds out the date.

    Some people obviously knew it back in June, like the DRE, but who remembers that? So everybody knows from October on.

    The moral of the story, obviously, is that concert promoters don't have enough meetings.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Richard Mix
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    I ought to have known better than to try to blame the secular culture: we have a quincenera scheduled for tomorrow, Holy Saturday.
  • canadashcanadash
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    One of my choir members is going to a wedding tomorrow! Even my 10 year old knew there was something wrong with that!
  • CharlesW
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    What spring break???
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  • eft94530eft94530
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    RE that Quinceanera.
    Jan 2015 while it was still Christmas Season, family visits parish office
    to reserve date for fourteen months to the future (Mar 2016).
    Having just started a new year, Nobody is thinking much about next year,
    let alone details like next year Lent and Holy Week.
    Nov-Dec 2015 the new scheduling book arrives.
    Notations are transferred.
    Uh oh.
    Solution:
    Liturgy of Word, Renewal of Baptism promises,
    Act of Consecration, Blessing of gifts, exit.

    Kudos to four parishioners ...
    10:00 am to 1:00 pm two cleaners completed their tasks
    11:30 am to 1:30 pm two decorators prepared sanctuary for Easter

    [sanctuary photo goes here, to be posted after quince]

    Timestamp == 0:37++
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7T0uzOhPQU
    Thanked by 2Richard Mix Kathy
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