Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.

Joined December 2016
In my father’s office there is a closet piled to the ceiling with boxes of photos. I spent hours gleaning for traces of my own life. Found only a handful of pictures of us together.
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Among the many boxes of photos from Vietnam and of his life with my stepmother Patricia I was moved to discover that his primary subject—recorded in 10s of 1000s of photographs was close-ups of flowers. Just like mine. Beauty.
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A preview of Henri Nouwen’s new “Ukraine Diary’” in ⁦@MaryknollMag⁩ ⁦@OrbisBooks
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See my publisher’s letter, highlighting Jon Sobrino and offering 25% off his titles, including his latest, “Theology without Deception.” Www.orbisbooks.com
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
To a disciple obsessed with the thought of life after death the Master said, “Why waste a single moment thinking of the hereafter?” “But is it possible not to?” “Yes.” “How?” “By living in heaven here and now.” “And where is this heaven?” “In the here and now.”—Anthony de Mello
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Thomas Berry, priest and “geologian,” helped to tell the “universe story.” He believed the ecological crisis of our time was also a spiritual crisis. Developing the consciousness necessary to meet this crisis was the “great work” of our age. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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We're looking forward to our "Off the Page" with editors Kathleen Deignan & Libby Osgood of "Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours", on June 7th at 10am PT/ 1 pm ET. Hosted by S&P’s Contributing Editor, Jon M. Sweeney, live on S&P's Facebook (@SpiritualityandPractice).⁠
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Helen Keller died June 1 1968. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP . “I know that life is given us so that may grow in love.”
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The June 2023 issue of @GiveUsThisDayLP. Some of my “Blessed Among Us” include Julia Greeley, G.M. Hopkins, Sigrid Undset, Martin Buber, the Soweto Martyrs, Thomas Berry and Helen Keller.
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A beautiful view of Sr Wendy in action.
So grateful to have discovered this short Sister Wendy Beckett clip from 2011 in which Sister Wendy discusses art in the presence of the artist! piped.video/0WS4mZL7cAs
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The great Mary Lou Williams. My reflections today in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Mary Lou Williams became a friend of Dorothy Day and often performed at the Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli. does anyone know if that has any connection to her piece "Miss D.D." ?
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Remembering St Joan of Arc, martyr of conscience, who refused to renounce her angelic voices, whose mysticism was deployed in the cause of liberation, who was burned to death in part because she refused to dress like a woman, who was condemned as a heretic before named as a st.
Feast of St Joan of Arc (1431), canonized in 1920, who claims the distinction among saints of having previously been condemned by the church as a heretic and burned at the stake. Throughout her ordeal she adamantly refused to renounce the angelic “voices” that guided her mission
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