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Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for refusing to take a military oath to Hitler, was beatified in 2007. The faith and courage of his wife Franziska, who died 3/16/2013, also deserves memory. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Robert Ellsberg, Dearest Sister Wendy cbfblog.com/2023/03/14/rober… via @cbfinfo
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Enjoyed this conversation about my relationship with Sister Wendy Beckett, and the book that followed, *Dearest Sister Wendy*. @OrbisBooks The best parts: how to engage with the world from a contemplative perspective, and how art can train us to see life with eyes of the heart.
Have you ever become pen pals with a South African nun? Check out our conversation with @RobertEllsberg, editor-in-chief @OrbisBooks and author of #DearestSisterWendy, on this week’s Podcast Conversation, sponsored by @iheartchm & BSK.edu:
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Fannie Lou Hamer d March 14 1977. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP “If I fall I will fall five-feet-four inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
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I know there will be many more tributes in the future, but this one, from Vietnam anti-war poet W.D. Erhardt is particularly moving. "Dan Ellsberg: A Personal Reflection" laprogressive.com/war-and-pe…
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The Oscar-winning film "Everything, Everywhere..." posits a multiverse consisting of different universes set in motion by our differing choices or the choices made by others. I thought of Dorothy Day whose life course was changed by the refusal of Forster Batterham to marry her.
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For five years after her conversion, and her decision to separate from him, she tried everything she could to change his mind. bit.ly/3mQq1ps When that door finally closed a new door opened with her meeting Peter Maurin and the start of the Catholic Worker. All that...
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she accomplished afterward came through the frustration of her heart's desire--a universe set in motion because of Forster's decision. Had he married her, an alternative universe would have been set in motion--who knows whether happier for her or the world? But she would not...
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now be a candidate for sainthood; the world would lack her radical model of the gospel in action. It is common to acknowledge the effect of personal choices, such as Mary's "Let it be done to me according to your will." But what of the outcomes determined by other's choices?
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How a Decade of Pope Francis Has Changed the Church newyorker.com/news/daily-com… via @NewYorker
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10 years ago Pope Francis first appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s and asked the People of God to pray for him. His agenda has offered a point of reference for our @OrbisBooks program. Now offering 25% discount on all his book. orbisbooks.com/collections/r…
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'Spiritual exemplars' change the media narrative about religion religionnews.com/2023/03/10/… via @RNS
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“The Reagan administration labeled a film ‘propaganda.’ It won an Oscar.” *If You Love this Planet”—based on a lecture by Dr. Helen Caldecott. Fascinating article. Link to the 25 min film here: nfb.ca/film/if_you_love_this…
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Rev James Reeb, Civil Rights martyr, died in Selma, AL March 11 1965. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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She “belonged to the few who, in the face of the crimes of national socialism, had the courage to listen to the voice of her conscience and rebel against the dictatorship and the genocide of the Jews. She is a heroine of freedom and humanity.” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/03/10/world…
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