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After WH movie night POTUS finds new talking points: “We have bad hombres—“Black Panthers,” not like the old ones, they now have technology that is frankly incredible. And then there is what they call NANNIES—sounds harmless til they come down yr chimney and tie you in duct tape.
Did President Trump get his border talking points from a movie? CNN's @miguelmarquez reports on Trump's repeated claim that women, bound with tape, have been transported across the border
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Re today's Gospel: "Who are my mother and my brothers?" Jesus' family assumes that their kinship gives them a special claim on Jesus: he belongs to *them,* not to the crowd. Jesus' response upends the traditional code of "family values"--that "blood is thicker than water." 1/2
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But the challenge also applies to the new Christian family. Do we cling to Jesus, try to keep him to ourselves, jealous of his love for the crowd? Instead of blood ties, do we claim family privilege on the basis of doctrine, as if God's family consists only of Christians? 2/3?
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Feast Day of St. Andrei Rublev (d. 1430), one of the greatest iconographers. Few of his works survive. His image of Christ known as the Savior of Zvenigorod was discovered in 1918 on the bottom of a board used as the stairway to a barn.
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Greta Thunberg is Swedish and only 16, thus ineligible to be President of the US. But one can dream.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg (16) says her Asperger's has helped | SV... piped.video/YrZ93Nbo34E via @YouTube
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Today’s Bible Literacy class: The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, in torment, he saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus. He said, Father Abraham, have pity on me, send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
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An outstanding essay by @gregorykhillis on Thomas Merton and nonviolence. Deep spiritual reading for our present moment.
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Compare and contrast: Roger Stone and Daniel Ellsberg.
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Father Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov: "Look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are sinful and foolish, and we don't understand that life is heaven...
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A wonderful reflection on Brother Juniper, one of St. Francis's most faithful followers, though generally regarded as a fool "by those who did not realize how perfect he was." assisiproject.com/
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FD of St. Thomas Aquinas. Following a mysterious experience during Mass he hung up his writing instruments, never to resume work on his Summa. "All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."
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Elliot Abrams has a long history of supporting terrorism, torture, and genocide, undermining democracy at home and abroad.
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