Church in Oklahoma

Over Labor Day weekend, I flew back to Oklahoma early Saturday morning to check on things with my parents, as my father was in the hospital for the second time in two weeks. My mother and I made an appearance at the early service at St. Luke's Sunday morning. The priest is on vacation, so they had a deacon's Mass with their perpetual deacon officiating. They've got a new curate who was just this summer ordained to the transitional diaconate. She gave the sermon.....I say "gave" rather than "preached" because she wrote a nice essay and just read it. Otherwise, she seems nice, and she's, surprisingly, older than me. The early service is a low Mass with no music, so it's kind of boring, but it's the only service at the parish these days that's consistently a proper Rite 1 service.