[Magdalen] Happy birthday Joseph Cirou – November 3

[Lee Lemmon]

dear Joe, hap, hap, happy birthday

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:

> When I was playing at a Lutheran Church in Kennesaw over 15 years ago,
> there was a man who had moved form Albania. He said they were Moslem in
> Albania but came to America so long ago that there was no mosque nearby; so
> they became Christian (analogous to Armenians joining the Episcopal Church
> even longer before). He was happy as a Christian because he said he had
> come from the Sufi tradition which had been described to him as "The Moslem
> Christians" the comparison of Rumi with Hopkins brought that back to my
> memory. However, I played the wedding of an Albanian Orthodox gentleman
> earlier this year and one of my good gay friends is also Albanian Orthodox
> and writes quite a bit about the gay strain in Albanian liturgy and poetry.
> He was one of the folks who researched some of the same sex rites of the
> late patristic and medieval times that had survived in Albania.
>
> Joe
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Lovely, Lynn. I'm a big Rumi fan.  This notion is not unlike that in
> > "Hound of Heaven."
> >
> > > On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:30 PM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > James O
> > >>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> > >
> > >> Sounds creepy.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi
> > mystic. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic
> > borders. Iranians, Turks, Cappadocian Greeks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other
> > Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of South Asia have greatly
> > appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries. His poems
> > have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and
> > transposed into various formats (Wiki)
> > >
> > > My 'take' when I read it and put it into my sig lines was that seeking
> > is part of the spiritual journey paired with a reassurance... as we seek
> so
> > are we sought.
> > >
> > > Lynn
> > >
> > > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> > >
> > > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> > not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You
> gave
> > me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
> > >
> > > Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> > ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder
> is
> > leaning against the wrong wall.”
> > >
> > > "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > From: "James Oppenheimer-Crawford" <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 10:49 AM
> > > To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Magdalen]Happy birthday Joseph Cirou – November 3
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <
> ichthys89 at comcast.net>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Sounds creepy.
> > >>
> > >> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > >> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things
> > better
> > >> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your
> > time
> > >> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
> > >
> >
>