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A Meditation by #ThomasMerton:
"All sin starts from the assumption that my false self, the self that exists only in my own egocentric desires, is the fundamental reality of life to which everything else in the universe is ordered. . .
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St Teresa of Avila: Thanks to @SheenCenter for the latest video based on my profiles of saints for @GiveUsThisDayLP
Meet St. Teresa of Avila - nun, mystic, religious reformer, author, theologian, and the first female Doctor of the Church. She is the latest saint to be featured in our Blessed Among Us series! @GiveUsThisDayLP @RobertEllsberg ow.ly/RdlF50uSIlE
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“But when you’ve done all this, there is a crucial next step, usually the trickiest of all. You have to undermine moral boundaries, inure people to the acceptance of acts of extreme cruelty.,” Trial runs for fascism are in full flow irishtimes.com/opinion/finta… via @IrishTimesOpEd
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@jonmsweeney found a really cool used bookstore there. It was a good day.
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Not too soon to begin planning this year’s Salute to Jesus Christ on December 25. Bigger and better than ever!
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... your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, ...
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.. with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, ...
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“The church... is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. I would say, welcome infidelity! welcome atheism! welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by those Divines!
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A religion which favors the rich against the poor; which exalts the proud above the humble; which divides mankind into two classes . . .is a religion which may be professed and enjoyed by all the robbers and enslavers of mankind.
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“Notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented... I do not despair of this country. .. The doom of slavery is certain. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light.” #SaluteToAmerica
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