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Ship of Fools: Celebrating the Life of Rossweisse: St Peter's, St Louis, Missouri, USA

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited November 2021 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: Celebrating the Life of Rossweisse: St Peter's, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Dignified and decidedly unfussy, with exquisite music

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  • malevequemaleveque Shipmate Posts: 3
    Thank you! It was wonderful watching it "with" you.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Indeed, although we did not watch it until quite some hours afterwards (11 am Saturday Missouri time was an impossible very early Sunday morning hour here). It was great to part of a world-round community remembering Rossweisse.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Welcome aboard @maleveque !

    Yes, a lovely service. The Reporter wasn't too keen on the ad orientem position at the altar, but FWIW that posture *fits* the architecture and design of the church.

    The clergy standing behind the altar, as if behind a sideboard, just wouldn't look right IMHO.

    BTW, I'd expected the clergy to wear eucharistic vestments (chasuble etc.), but the surplice-and-stole arrangement goes nicely with the general ambience of the church.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Thank you for this lovely Mystery Worship report! There are tears in my eyes, and a BIG lump in my throat. <3
  • PigwidgeonPigwidgeon Shipmate
    Thank you so much. Like jedijudy, my eyes are tearing.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    Thank you. It was lovely. I got a screen capture of the rubber chicken (said I to myself: WTF is that???) and now I know what it is.
  • Pangolin GuerrePangolin Guerre Shipmate
    How did I miss the chicken?!?

    It was lovely, and it was thoughtful of St Peter's to live stream the service for a shipmate dear to so many of us.
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Very moving, yet inspirational.
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    How did I miss the chicken?! Ross is rolling her eyes at me.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Pangolin Guerre wrote: »
    How did I miss the chicken?!?
    Mamacita wrote: »
    How did I miss the chicken?! Ross is rolling her eyes at me.
    I suspect she’s having a good laugh, @Mamacita. :wink:

    It doesn’t seem to have been present through the whole service, but it can be seen during the readings from Wisdom and from Revelation, between (screenwise) the reader and the altar, in appropriate choir attire.

    It was indeed a beautiful, and fitting, service.

  • LacyDLacyD Shipmate Posts: 1
    So glad you all joined in to celebrate Rossweisse, we miss her so much.

    The chicken did sit with the choir during the service. Part of the time he was up on the rail in front of the sopranos on the Epistle side but they were afraid of knocking him over so he finished the service in the pew.

    His name is Scrawny MacNugget and has been the choir's mascot since 1997. His first appearance came after a new banner for St. Peter’s was revealed that showed a skinny rooster (the symbol of St. Peter). One of the choir members remarked if that is the symbol of our church then the symbol of the choir must be a rubber chicken. His creator and tailor couldn’t let that one rest so he appeared shortly after in full choir cassock and cotta. He even went with us on our first choir tour to England that summer, earning his wings from Delta airlines. He has been with us ever since and has quite the wardrobe including a kilt and jacket for our annual Kirkin of the Tartan, a lovely black velvet evening gown with a red bolero jacket. He has badges from all of the cathedrals and churches the St. Peter’s Choir has sung in from our three trips to England, Scotland and Wales.

    Scrawny had several annual calendars produced for him in the early 2000s. Quite the celebrity back then.
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    Welcome, @LacyD ! And thank you for the charming history of the choir mascot!
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