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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
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St Antony (d 356) was one of the first desert fathers. After emerging from 20 yrs in the wilderness everyone was impressed by the “soul’s joy” that shone in his face. He died at 105. 30 years after Antony’s death, St Augustine, wavering on his own conversion, read his biography.
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Augustine was amazed “to hear of the wonders God had worked so recently in our own time.” It was a factor in hastening his own conversion. One reason I write about saints and holy lives: The chain reaction that can occur whereby one lamp lights another. @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Here is the famous pulpit of Riverside Church where #MartinLutherKingJr delivered his prophetic speech against Vietnam in 1967–a speech, many believe, that signed his death warrant.
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90th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
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Having traveled far from the stable of his birth, he liked to follow Evening Prayer with “a glass of Dewar’s on the rocks, and a Baccarat cigar, with the dogs Sammy I and Sammy II” at his feet “and a cheeseburger from the local diner in his hand.”
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Today's gospel reading is apt: Regarding Jesus, "The people were astonished at the way he taught, for he spoke as one having authority, and not like the teachers of the law." (Spoiler alert: this did not make him popular with teachers of the law.")
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Pastor Martin Niemoeller was born 1/14/1892. In 1937 he was arrested and confined to Dachau until 1945 as Hitler's "personal prisoner." While his arrest provided an "alibi" after 1937, he said there was no excuse for his failure to speak out effectively in earlier years.
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