[Regia-NA] Greetings from a newbie

[John Michalski]

Hello Tracie! Thanks for the welcome (I've goten
several...this seems to be a friendlier group than
some I've tried to contact).

Good luck with the habits. I've always found wool
problematic, and regret that cotton is "out of period"
for medieval/renaissance reenacting. I guess linen is
a good second choice, though it wrinkles so!

As for seminary, I'm going in, not coming out. I start
at Nashotah House this fall for a one-year M.Div.
completion program (I did a couple of years in an RC
seminary in a previous incarnation). Sadly, it has a
bit of a reputation for being hyper-conservative, but
like many reputations that one lacks nuance. What I
can tell you is that it's got a semi-monastic,
Oxbridge rule of life, is committed to the classical
theologicl/spiritual tradition, is very liturgical and
sacramental and has some very fine teachers. My wife
and I are looking forward to our time there very much.

As for Regia, I'm getting more and more interested in
being involved. I've had an e from a guy who wants to
start a group in the Chicago/Milwaukee area in August
when the new "fiscal year" starts, and I'm very
tempted. Is it VERY expensive to pursue this hobby, or
can one be authentic at a reasonable price? Advice
would be appreciated.

Good luck finding the Hutton (it's at Amazon if your
local shops don't have it - that's where I got mine).

All the best,

John

--- Tracie Brown <trbrown at uga.edu> wrote:
> Welcome, John!
> 
> My buddy Anne and I are busy researching monastic
> life during 
> the Regia period, and we just bought some brown wool
> and 
> linen to construct habits. Being ladies of a certain
> age and 
> status, there is a certain attraction to a
> comfortable 
> convent retirement plan ... at least we're counting
> on it
> being comfortable.  We don't care what the bishop
> says, we're 
> keeping our lap dogs.
> 
> I'll be looking for "Stations of the Sun" -- it
> shouldn't be 
> to hard to find in this university town.
> 
> By the way, where did you go to seminary?  My old
> college 
> roommate went to Seabury-Western, and I loved going
> up to 
> visit. We used to jerk her chain by telling people
> that she 
> was studying to be a priestess. "I wish you wouldn't
> say 
> that," she'd chide. "It sounds so heathen!"  (She
> was one of 
> the first women officially ordained in the the
> Episcopal 
> church.)  
> 
> Hope to meet you, too, though it may be a while. 
> I'm in 
> Georgia. (Hence the linen habits -- linen is our
> friend.)
> 
> -- Tracie
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