[Magdalen] bulletin blooper

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 27 15:36:43 PDT 2014


You're kidding, right, Jim??? Don't you know God dictated the Bible word for word, and God doesn't make mistakes!

> On Sep 27, 2014, at 5:40 PM, James Oppenheimer <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And there really are people out there who seriously believe the Bible could
> be free from error, bless their hearts.
> 
> As if humans could ever be capable of such a thing.
> 
> I like us the way we are, ak-chew-ally.
> 
> 
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer
> *“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
> 
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Ah yes, I've presided at many of those Episco-Combo funerals, and they are
>> always a challenge! No matter what part of the service I invited the
>> visiting clergy to take, they always managed to "say a few words," often of
>> the type you mentioned, Ginga. But I made sure that my homily always came
>> after all that so I could be sure there was at least some mention of grace.
>> 
>> But we never had quite as wonderful a typo as you did! "God's celestial
>> sore" indeed!
>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I went to a funeral today that was a Baptist-Episcopal combo.
>> Interesting
>>> to say the least, but the Episcopal priest got to wind it up with a
>> homily
>>> on grace and Jesus promise to be with us always.  The deceased's
>> brother, a
>>> conservative Baptist pastor, spoke at the beginning of the service on
>> what
>>> a sinner his brother was and yadayadayada.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, the first song was I'll Fly away.  The words in the bulletin
>>> indicated we were to sing the first verse thusly:
>>> 
>>> "Some bright morning when this life is over
>>> I'll fly away
>>> To that home on God's celestial sore
>>> I'll fly away.
>>> 
>>> Gotta Love It.  I didn't even crack a smile until I got in the car to
>> come
>>> home.
>>> 
>>> Ginga
>> 


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