[Magdalen] No mail...

[Grace Cangialosi]

I don’t know either, but the person who told me that gave the impression that I was an idiot not to have known it.

> On Apr 21, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm still not sold on the 'fact' that it's supposed to be MM...  possibly lore?
> L
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> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
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> 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
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> "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
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>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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>> 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...”).
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>> Grace, g,d,&r
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>>> On Apr 21, 2018, at 12:25 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>>