Haven’t reported much back yet on this, since there’s No Official Word. The candidate met last Thursday night with the Vestry to get a better feel for us, ask us questions about the congregation and parish and our direction and where we see things going and how we expect to be working with the new rector and all that.<\/p>\n
It’s funny, because on the one hand, one expect, it being a Religious Office, for there to be a Heavenly Choir, and Flock of Angels, and a Shaft of Godly Light suffusing everyone and making this all a Clear, Divinely-Inspired Mission.<\/p>\n
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