[Magdalen] Margaret Guenther

[Michael Canning]

http://news.gts.edu/2016/12/in-memoriam-margaret-a-guenther-83/

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:12 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
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> A good 15 years ago as part of a course I saw a video of a talk she gave
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> at St. John's, York Mills, here in Toronto.  She was beyond warm and
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> wonderful, her words memorable.  Thank heaven I was taking notes!!!!
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> Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
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> On 12/13/2016 2:44 PM, Judy Fleener wrote:
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> > I attended two retreats led by Margaret Guenther.  One was at DeKoven,
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> > other was an OJN affiliates' retreat.  She was an abolurly luminous
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> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com>
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> >> My experience is similar. I was first introduced to her by my spiritual
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> >> director who handed me Holy Listening to read. I thought is a special
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> >> with much to offer about creating the environment for spiritual
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> >> Years after that, she came at my request to do a conference for us at
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> >> Redeemer. Her manner was truly a nonanxious presence. She stayed at a
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> >> hotel, but took meals with my husband and I. We enjoyed her very much.
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> >> Interesting to me, she commented to me that she had changed much since
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> >> writing Holy Listening and now took much more of an anam cara approach
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> >> I will miss her wisdom.....
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> >> Marilyn
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> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:00 AM Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com
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> >>> We had the pleasure of having her for an evening forum. It was an
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> >>> especially nasty, rainy day, and I  volunteered to pick her up at St
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> >>> Columba's and bring her to Holy Comforter, then return her to her
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> >>> near her church. What a fabulous woman!
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> >>> Eleanor
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> >>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:50 AM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
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> >>>> Thanks to those of you who sent additional information. I only met her
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> >>>> once, when she did a Fall Clergy Retreat for us in Virginia. What a
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> >>>> holy presence she was.
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> >>> --
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> >> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
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