Once again All Saints Church is in the news due to new demands by the IRS. After almost a year of silence and nonresponsiveness to our communications (through our attorneys) they have summoned our rector to produce a wealth of documentation and appear in court on the 11th of October. For all the details, visit the All Saints website at www.allsaints-pas.org.

As a result, we’ve been been featured on all the networks and NPR, and the CNN truck has been parked outside my window all day while CNN broadcast live from there. Kinda cool to have the place where you work be all over the news, but kind of a pain as well. I didn’t get as much done as I had hoped today as the distractions are great and around every corner. I don’t know yet whether we will actually provide the IRS with the documentation they are demanding. If we don’t, it will apparently give us the right to go to court and fight all this. I think that’s what will happen. Time will tell

This past weekend was brutal having to basically be at work each day. The wedding was huge–about 500-600 people at the ceremony and probably another 200-250 at the reception. Biggest wedding I’ve ever attended. And also the weirdest. When the bride walked down the aisle, everyone stood and cheered and applauded! A bit of explanation–this is her second marriage, she’s 60 years old, and she’s worked at All Saints for 28 years.

Sunday was exhausting. Attended the first service at 9:00 that lasted almost two hours! The next service started at 11:15 and a bunch of us chose to wait outside and only go in at the point where the staff was recognized. Then we had Mexican food outside on the lawn and went back in around 1:00 for the bilingual service. It started late (around 1:30) and we finally were able to leave a little after 2:00. I came home, sat down on the couch and took a nap.

And so the weekend was over. Glad I don’t have to do that every weekend. I’m ready for some normal Monday thru Friday working with Saturdays and Sundays to do what I want.