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Fascinating! Thank you

Even thought it's properly a Christmas thing, I always associate O Magnum Mysterium with the feast of St Francis. Same vibes, I guess. O great mystery and wonderful sacrament that the animals should see the newborn Lord laying in a manger!

I have now been an episcopalian long enough that hymns I had never heard before becoming an episcopalian are familiar enough and long-known enough to have nostalgia about

getting older rules

However, I was soon given the boot, and after a period of wandering between various churches, I was eventually confirmed in the Episcopal Church by the Rt. Rev. Catherine Waynick, so I'd say things worked out alright.

Blessed Phoebe! I got into so much trouble at my old church because I said from the pulpit that "diakonos of the church" might mean that Phoebe was a deacon. I wasn't brave enough to venture what "Junia.. outstanding among the apostles" could imply.