[Magdalen] On a humorous note

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

or Aramaic?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was the warden reading in Hebrew or Greek?
>
> "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
> humbly with your God?"
> Micah 6:8
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/2015 20:23, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> We has someone at Christ Church Bay Ridge who was adamant that all hymns
> >> be sung to their "original tunes (and vice versa, he would really fuss
> at
> >> Ton-y-botel without the "original text."
> >>
> >> So one All Saints, we sang "For All the Saint" to the tune Engelberg.
> >> "That's not what I meant!" the guy fumed afterwards.
> >>
> >
> > That sounds rather like the churchwarden, who regularly read at Morning
> > Prayer, who told the incumbent that the lessons should be the original
> > text.  The incumbent agreed and the next Sunday suggested that the
> > churchwarden might like to look at the text before the sercice.  "No
> need"
> > was the response.
> >
> > The vicar insisted he would prefer the warden to comply, so this was
> > reluctantly acceded to.  The point was made.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>