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

Joseph Cirou romanos at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 7 17:28:59 UTC 2014


Irony and unanswered questions can be the part of great art and great faith

Joe Cirou

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>


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