Altar Guild Meeting At My House

[westyslantfront]

Today I hosted the monthly Altar Guild meeting from my parish.
As I wash and iron all the Communion linens and Vestments, I am a member of the Altar Guild at Christ The King Episcopal
Church, Tucson, Az.
First is a picture of the members and the Rector, Fr. Mike
taken by the Norge timeline

 

[westyslantfront]

Here is another picture taken by the Norge timeline.
I had a load of church laundry washing in the Norge.

 

[westyslantfront]

And one last picture of Fr. Mike and I watching a load of church laundry in the Norge.

 

[neptunebob]

Ross, do you often do the laundry in all the machines at once? Looks like you lost some weight too. Father mike is not a Catholic priest is he?

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Bob. I am Episcopalian, which some people have called
"Catholic Light" or "Watered down Catholics". The machines pictured are in the garage in the front of the house. In the back is the laundry room where I have 3 Maytags and a dryer.
I have on occasion, used all the machines in the garage, especially when we had wash ins in Tucson.

Ross

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Bob, I forgot.....yes I lost 70 lbs. It took 1 1/2 years but I have gone from a 46 to a 36 waist. I am diabetic but thanks to the weight loss, my blood sugar and blood pressure are much lower than when I was heavy.

Ross

 

[mickeyd]

I'm in awe

You get to wash the sacred vestments. So nice to see freedom of religion. We really live free. America isn't the envy of the world for nothing. I love how you squatted down in humility because you look so damn good ;'D. God bless you and your wonderful friends, and more than that, may god keep your wonderful washing machines working. On sabbatical, I was so hoping to go to the Famous Tuscon Wash-in. So........where is God now??? ;'D;'D;'D

 

[passatdoc]

Is Christ the King the one with the super-duper music program and a choir director who composes a lot of original music. I am also Episcopalian and sing in the choir, and we do a lot of original music that comes out of some Episcopal parish in Tucson.

 

[passatdoc]

ps

NEVER EVER pick a fight with the Altar Guild. It's hopeless. They control the church, NOT the priest and not the Vestry.

 

[polkanut]

I'm president of our Guild at Trinity Lutheran here in Wausau, and we don't control the church but we can make things unpleasant if you tick us off. LOL!!! I was surprised to see that your Guild has so few members, we have about 20. I'm sure that your parish isn't as large as our though, we have roughly 2700 baptized members. The link is to our parish & school website.

Trinity Lutheran Church & School - Missouri Synod Church Wausau

Trinity Lutheran Church welcomes you to our family. Our mission is to TEACH the faith, LOVE the lost, and CONNECT all to Christ! Teach, love, and connect with us!

www.trinitynet.org

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Jim. I emailed the choir director of my parish. He is very good and is going to France with the Rector next week to study music at Taize, a French monastic order. They will be gone for 10 days.

Hi Tim. We have 20 members of the Altar Guild, but not all members came to my house. The directress broke her finger the morning of the meeting and was unable to attend.
Thank you for the link to your parish. Looks like a very nice parish.
Meantime, I have 4 linen clerical collars washing in my Norgetag. Thanks to hot water, bleach, bluing, Viva detergent and Phosphates, I am not phased by ring around the clerical collar. Then I use liquid starch. Fr. Mike likes his clerical collars bullet proof.

Ross

 

[bobbyderegis]

Ross, how cool!

The first pic reminded me of the old Maytag ad with all the nuns. It looks like a nice group. Our Congregational church has an altar guild, but since we only occasionally have communion, all they do is change the candles and arrange the flowers!
Bobby in Boston

 

[gansky1]

Brilliant move, Ross! Nobody will every question your ability to wash clean linens and vestments - ever!

 

[toggleswitch]

Oh Ross, you look fabulous! And its nice to see the Altar guild!

I see your new tankless hot water heater by the minsiter's head as well. Did you resolve the issue of the other one [for the main house] not starting up at a low (showering, say) water flow rate?

 

[tlee618]

Thanks for sharing the pictures Ross, I am sure you all had a great time.

 

[passatdoc]

St. Phillips in the Hills

The parish with the amazing music program is St. Phillips in the Hills. They had some artist in residence who composed a lot of stuff which we have sung, and once I was in an Evensong with three other parishes here (the OC) and they flew over the composer from Tucson to lead us. At one time he was music director at the very very huge All Saints in Pasadena, and Tucson was sort of his retirement, though he's been very active in AZ, composing lots of good music. For our rector's 30 anniversary of ordination, we commissioned an anthem that he composed.

http://www.stphilipstucson.org/Music/musicnew.html

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Jim. When I first arrived in Tucson, 3 1/2 years ago, I did try St. Phillips but I felt it was too big and I got lost in the shuffle.
I went to St. Michael and All Angels for 2 years but I found too many people there arrogant, opinionated, sometimes downright rude. They complained when I used fabric softener on the vestments to have a nice smell and less wrinkles. They also complained about the Mexican detergent I use. Well...now they can take care of it any way they like.
I am at Christ The King for 1 1/2 years and everyone, without exception is very warm and friendly. A wonderful parish family.
We are selling our electronic organ and purchasing an
Aeolian Skinner 1192 which I have been told is the
"Cadillac Of Organs. And no complaints on my laundry. Actually, everyone is thrilled with the job I do on the laundry at Christ The King.

Ross

 

[toggleswitch]

Good for them. YAY to a big, authentic and good quality organ.

We have a couple of good, handsome qualified organ-masters here, IIRC.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Holy Whites

Nice one Ross, Nothing like an episcopal gathering to receive the "Whitest Whites" approval....the curtain always makes me smile, looks like a little grotto scenario!!!

Enjoy, Mike