[Magdalen] Listgiv?

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 27, 2017 5:02 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Listgiv?
>
>Aw.  That is lovely to know, Joe.  The final product is lovely -- sinple 
>and bright and very meaningful in so many ways.  I wish I could be so 
>inspired, both to think of it and to execute it!
>
>Your holy water bottle of last year is on my home altar.   I tend to 
>think of it as one of those bottles in which tears were collected -- a 
>lachrymatory?  'Put my tears into thy bottle.'  Ps 56.8
>
>Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
>On 12/27/2017 4:23 PM, Joseph Cirou wrote:
>> Marian,
>>
>> You were my listgiv last year and I had emailed Lynn my fanciful idea of sending you some kind of sail themed gift. My imagination failed me but perhaps it was the spark that to this year's gift from a more talented seamstress.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Dec 27, 2017 1:38 PM
>>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Listgiv?
>>>
>>> And, lo! the post office was open this morning and my Listgive is on its
>>> way to the US of A.  The load of guilt has lifted!
>>>
>>> My reward was to find that I have received mail (along with a smiley
>>> face from the carrier to clear my mail  box, because my stupid neighbour
>>> with his snow blower had made the box inaccessible save to the
>>> determined.  I'll have to go up with my shovel and clear it.  Do you
>>> think my neighbour will be cross if I throw the snow onto his drive???
>>> Bad thoughts, not Christian love.)
>>>
>>> AND in that mail was a beautiful gift from Lynn!  One of a kind 'fabric
>>> art' created for me "Today my sail I lift".  A ship in full sail with a
>>> cross for the mast.  Words fail me.  Funnily enough, I had just typed
>>> that sig' on another list that has had great significance for some of us
>>> here.  Wow!  I am blessed. Thank you!
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/27/2017 7:37 AM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>>> If the post office is open today I may actually send my Listgiv on its
>>>> way.  Here's hoping!  It's pretty chilly up here - 20C which I know is
>>>> below Zero F.
>>>>
>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>
>>>>
>
Marion,

Your listgiv arrived today on the Feast of the HOly Name of Jesus on the Roman Calendar and in the pre-festal period of Theophany on the Byzantine Gregorian calendar.. I will enjoy reading Epiphany and seeing how the author changed his view on same sex love. Your card was very special.
The Benedictines of Clyde had a chapel next to our Seminary. At the time I was in school they had about 6 foundations. Clyde is the only one left. The mosaics on the card look very much like the mosaics in their chapel in Libertyville Il. I imagine they style was common to some of their foundations. We used to serve Mass for the sisters when I was in school. They became good friends of some of us. My parents had their 40th anniversary in that chapel. The chapel is now owned by the Franciscans of the Immaculate--the congregation to which St. Maximilian Kolbe belonged.

The Seminary and the seminarians staffed their chapel. I presume there is no longer any official affiliation between the Franciscans and Mundelein Seminary. The Franciscan Nuns used to be our cooks and housekeepers at the seminary. I think the Mexican Sisters now staff the seminary. They used to staff our college seminary, but now there are at Mundelein.

Thanks again for the Christmas Gift. Sunday is Julian Calendar Christmas. I will be playing for the Episcopalians. I feel very guilty missing liturgy on January 1. I didn't think St. John's was having liturgy for St. Basil's. It turned out they did.

Joe Cirou