[Magdalen] Mary Did You Know? (small rant)

[Judy Fleener]

For me the real question in that song is Mary did you know how he would die.
Judy

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I'm just more big-O Orthodox than you, Jim.
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 7:47 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There are lots of things we can know but have no idea what it means. Mary
> > may have known he was special but not the enormity of who he was/is.
> >
> > Jim Handsfield
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Dec 6, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This song has always annoyed me, and I couldn't quite put my finger on
> > why
> > > until today when I saw a meme on Facebook that nailed it. It was a
> Grumpy
> > > Cat meme, which I normally wouldn't pay much attention to, but this one
> > was
> > > Orthodox Grumpy Cat. On one side of the panel it said "Mary Did You
> > Know?"
> > > On the other side was the well-known Grumpy Cat, captioned "Of course
> she
> > > did. Now shut up." And it hit me...THAT was what bugged me about the
> > song!
> > > Mary may not have known *exactly* what miracles Jesus was going to do,
> > but
> > > if she was paying attention during the Annunciation, OF COURSE she knew
> > who
> > > He was!
> > >
> > > /rant mode off. There, I feel better now.
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan