[Magdalen] High school graduation gift?

[Jon Egger]

Whenever the churches I've been assigned to have HS graduates, I've always
given such kids a bible, as their gift from the deacon.  I've always chosen
The Message Bible as it's my favorite bible for personal reading.  It's
also my choice when I compare and contrast with the NRSV during sermons.
The modern idiom is great!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_%28Bible%29

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Grace & peace,
Deacon Jon Egger



*“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who
has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to
deceive and overawe the People."(Eugene V. Debs, Anti-War Speech, June 16,
1918) *


On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> I do think a nice pen or a nice piece of jewelry would be lovely.  Perhaps
> either would eventually get lost, but perhaps not.  I lost the first
> stainless steel Cross pen I was given, with my name and the year engraved
> on it.  I've since bought two more of the same pen (didn't have them
> engraved), and I still think of the original giver each time I use it (or
> find it, if it's not currently in use -- saw it again just today!).  If
> there is something you make, even high school grads have an appreciation of
> "original art."  I remember sometime in college when a friend of mine gave
> me an original print that she made in an art class -- I still have it!
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
> > Duh!  Correction: read "Pater" beads for "Ave" beads.  The ones that are
> > fewer.  Most of the beads, blue onyx.  Silver (filigree), one in eleven.
> > Also silver "seed beads" for separators, since they were cord rosaries
> and
> > necklace.
> >
> >
> > On 5/16/15 2:54 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/16/15 1:37 PM, Jo Craddock wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm sure we've been through this before, but, it's that time again...
> >>>
> >>> The daughter of dear friends is graduating from high school. Through a
> >>> long series of events with both families, it's been difficult to keep
> in
> >>> touch, but her mother and I were close and very involved in children's
> >>> CE together at the time of graduate's birth, so I'd like to give her
> >>> something meaningful, long-term, rather than dorm room kitsch. <grin>
> >>> Suggestions?
> >>>
> >>
> >> My daughter's three best friend classmates were all graduating from high
> >> school at the same time that she was, and it happened that all three of
> >> them were Roman Catholic, while mine wasn't even an Episcopalian, but
> >> had stayed with my childhood church, Christian Church, very Protestant
> >> Fundamentalist.  I was doing a lot of beadwork at the time, and I made
> >> the other three very beautiful (if I do say so myself) rosaries, Blue
> >> Onyx beads, Sterling Silver hardware (and Ave beads).  I made my
> >> daughter a necklace, very similar, with the same beads and separator
> >> beads, and one of the Ave beads instead of the center Marian medal, with
> >> the crucifix hanging down in front on the then-fashionable "Y"
> >> configuration, the neck part choker length.  The other girls loved
> >> theirs, and so did my daughter at first.  Then she went to Christian
> >> College, and took a lot of crap from her friends there about the
> >> crucifix, so she didn't ever wear it to school again.  I suppose it
> >> might still be in her jewelry box now.
> >>
> >> Which isn't a lot of help for you, but you might think of some lovely
> >> bit of jewelry that would _not_ cause problems....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Sibyl Smirl
> > I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >
>