[Magdalen] Happy birthday Joseph Cirou – November 3

[Joseph Cirou]

Lee just sent me a birthday greeting, now I have just heard that she is
celebrating a heavenly birthday.

May the memory of Lee Lemmon be eternal!

Joe Cirou

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Lee Lemmon <lemmon.lee9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>