[Magdalen] No mail...

[Jay Weigel]

Actually I believe that the composer of the hymn himself said it was about
a vision he had of Mary Magdalene on Easter morning, so there you are. I
read that somewhere.It's certainly not my favorite either, but
whatever."The Holy City", however (aka "Jerusalem") will always hold a
special place in my heart because it is one of the earlier things I
remember my dad singing, he being a devout member of what we called the
"bathroom metropolitan".On my first Easter at the Lutheran church here, the
husband of the choir director sang it and I am not embarrassed to say that
I teared up.

Lynn, your "backyard gang" sounds just like my "Swamp Rats", and it sounds
like you love them just as much. Speaking of my Swamp Rats, the youngest
became a dad for the second time last week when his wife gave birth to a 7
lb. 12 oz boy, Flynn Edward Walton. Much joy!

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm still not sold on the 'fact' that it's supposed to be MM...  possibly
> lore?
> L
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
> "Mercy and compassion are more than personal options. They are the
> antidotes to that fear and hatred." Mark Singel
>
>
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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
>>>>
>>>>
>>