[Magdalen] No mail...

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I'm still not sold on the 'fact' that it's supposed to be MM...  possibly 
lore?
L

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From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 4:35 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] No mail...

> I didn’t know that.  On the other hand, I have seldom had occasion to sing 
> it, so haven’t studied the words closely.  I just thought, like Grace, 
> that it was someone’s personal expression.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Grace Cangialosi
> Sent: April 21, 2018 5:25 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] No mail...
>
> We sang “In the Garden” at a number of funerals when I was pastoring in 
> the mountains. The older folks loved it, and I had no problem with it. I 
> learned it in high school, when I played the organ for the Army chapel.
>
> I am embarrassed to say, however, that it was not until somebody said 
> something a few weeks ago, that I realized it was about/spoken by Mary 
> Magdalen!  I always though of it from a personal point of view. Apparently 
> everyone in the world knew it was MM speaking.....
>
> (And you all know, of course, that it was this song that revealed God’s 
> first name: “Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me...”).
>
> Grace, g,d,&r
>
>> On Apr 21, 2018, at 12:25 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We are returned from Bermuda and grinning.
>> In the Garden ???
>> well, she was a very old woman.
>>
>> I have a story about In the Garden.
>> It was removed from the Wellesley hymnal circa 1960
>> because it made the students shriek with laughter.
>> Autre temps.
>> -M, a somewhat old woman
>>
>> PS: I set up filters so the Magdalen mail goes to its own folder. So I 
>> can
>> check it or not. Someone else can probably explain this better.
>>
>> PPS: Speaking of Wellesley, Connie Chandler-Ward has died. See legacy.com
>> for more information.
>>
>>> On Saturday, April 21, 2018, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm here...not as often as before. My email has become a swamp of 
>>> unwanted
>>> stuff and it's so wearisome combing through it for those that I want to
>>> read.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else watching the Bush funeral on CNN?
>>>
>>> Magnificent church, magnificent music..
>>>
>>> We have had two grand funerals in South Africa these past two weeks -
>>> Mam'Winnie Madikizela-Mandela last week, and former Cabinet Minister Dr
>>> Zola Skweyiya today. Both emotional in different ways.
>>>
>>> I thought that I would feel detached from the First Lady's funeral 
>>> service,
>>> hoping just to enjoy the music (which I am).
>>>
>>> But it's not like that. I'm feeling a bit thin skinned today for various
>>> reasons known and unknown, but this service is really getting to me. It
>>> feels as though I'm watching the funeral of a world I knew and have 
>>> taken
>>> for granted, a world in which the President of the USA was a leader,
>>> someone who made a contribution and at least tried to make the world a
>>> safer place
>>>
>