Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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“If ... these harsh conditions have been intentionally inflicted on children as part of a broader plan to deter others from migrating, then it meets the definition of a mass atrocity: a deliberate, systematic attack on civilians.” nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opini… via @nytopinion
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Moving and inspiring session on Dan Berrigan and his relationship with Thomas Merton at the Merton Society conference: Frida Berrigan, Ched Myers, Eric Martin, and Anna Brown.
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With lots of shoutouts to @OrbisBooks and to Liz McAlister (450 days in jail) and the King’s Bay Plowshares.
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FD of St Peter. “Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: ‘Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.’ And he went outside and wept bitterly.” (Wood engraving: Fritz Eichenberg)
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“Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him ... Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, His place is with the others for whom there is no room.”—Thomas Merton
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“If I am to be a saint I have not only to be a monk, which is what all monks must do to become saints, but I must also put down on paper what I have become. It may sound simple but it is not an easy vocation.”—Thomas Merton, from my talk today at Merton Society.
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Always my fantasy that I will run into someone on a train or in a garden who is reading one of my books. I always check, although 9 times out of 10 it is by @JamesMartinSJ
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Pope Francis, preaching at Lampedusa, remembering the immigrants drowned at sea, constructed his whole homily around those two questions. bit.ly/2ITiZKv
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At @SantaClaraUniv for the Thomas Merton Society meeting. Here in 1982 Jesuit martyr Ignacio Ellacuría delivered prophetic commencement speech on the role of the university. bit.ly/20TSu7v
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After escaping Nazi Germany to study at @UnionSeminary Bonhoeffer chose to return: “I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the tribulations of this time with my people.” He was executed on 4/9 1945.
From our archives: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Union application, ID card, and a page of his class notes. #TBT
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