[Magdalen] Zacchaeus? Who's that?

[Jay Weigel]

How many of our kids learned the song about Zaccheus in preschool or Sunday
School?

Zaccheus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he,
He climbed up in the sycamore tree the Savior for to see....

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think Zaccheus should be the patron saint of all of us
> vertically-challenged people!
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> Grace Cangialosi
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> "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great
> love."
> St. Teresa of Calcutta
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> On October 30, 2016, at 3:21 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
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> Thanks to my So Bapt childhood, I have a very clear Sunday School memory
> of a picture on the wall of short Zacchaeus climbing the tree to see Jesus
> as he passed by.  Lots of good memories from those days, in spite of the
> bad ones.  Having had one of the best Sunday School teachers of all time
> seemingly each and every year from preschool thru several years, who was
> also a dear from of my mother's, must have been the ticket.
>
> And, by the way, here's the tree:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacchaeus#/media/File:
> Palestine_Jericho3_tango7174.jpg
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> (And to bring this around to politics, though I'm sure I've mentioned it
> before, in 1976 when I and my parents visited my father's homeland of
> Alvarado, Texas, Pop went out of his way to show me the tree he climbed
> once to see FDR as he went through town.)
>