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Was it Chesterton who said "They will know you are Christians by your love?" Trying to track that quote.
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You would think so, wouldn't you, Father, but how did Bd Charles de Foucauld, St. Oscar Romero, St. Edith Stein, St. Therese of Lisieux, St Teresa of Calcutta, St. John XXIII, Bd John Henry Newman get mixed up with all these Marxists? Faithless readers want to know. @OrbisBooks
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Top ten titles in the @OrbisBooks Modern Spiritual Masters Series. Now you can keep score at home:
1 #ThichNhatHanh
2 #HenriNouwen
3 #ThomasMerton
4 #AnthonydeMello
5 #Teilhard
6 #Gandhi
7 #OscarRomero
8 #Bonhoeffer
9 #FlanneryOConnor
10 #RichardRohr
Have you posted the order of this series? It would be interesting to learn the ones that have garnered the most interest among readers. Even if not all 65, what are the top 10 or 25?
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French artist George Rouault died on Feb 13, 1958. His work in a stained-glass studio influenced his painting style. Moved by his discovery of Christ at 30 he disdained the hypocrisy of bourgeois religion and sought to celebrate Christ's presence in the poor, suffering, sinners.
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“James Martin: Essential Writing” has surpassed GK Chesterton in the @OrbisBooks Modern Spiritual Master Series (#24 out of 65). Why is the Fake Spirituality News ignoring this? @JamesMartinSJ
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He said it was a sheriff’s star. Retweeted from a site with the handle WhiteGenocide. politifact.com/truth-o-meter…
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Great review. @OrbisBooks orbisbooks.com/blessed-are-t…
"Blessed Are the Refugees" confronts the rhetoric of fear, all too prevalent in recent immigration debates, with the rhetoric of the Gospel: the rhetoric of love, writes @jzipple.
americamagazine.org/arts-cul…
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Today's gospel (Mk 7:1-13): One can only imagine Jesus' frustration with so-called "teachers of the law" who nit-pick and criticize him for every technical violation of rules or rubrics,, while ignoring injustice or the call to mercy. The church has its own counterparts.
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On Feb 12 2005, Sr Dorothy Stang, an American nun who had spent 40 yrs in Brazil, was confronted by hired gunmen who asked whether she was armed. In reply she produced her Bible and recited the Beatitudes. Then they shot her.
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Stang had come to see the connections between defending the poor farmers of the Amazon and defense of the rainforest. As a result she was seen as an enemy of the loggers and cattle barons who hired her killers. orbisbooks.com/martyr-of-the… icon by William Hart McNichols
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Excellent reflection on how Julian of Norwich speaks to our current world.
“Alle Shalle Be Wele:” Julian of Norwich and the process of transformation | openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/transforma…
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Muriel Lester, a great English peacemaker and friend of Gandhi, died Feb 11 1968: "We should stop praying the Lord's Prayer until we can see that 'Our Father' means that we are tied to the same living tether not only with our fellow countrymen but with everybody on the planet."
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A.J. Muste, one of the great American exponents of Christian nonviolence in the 20th cen died Feb 11, 1967. "Pacifism--life--is built upon a central truth and the experience of that truth...That truth is: God is love, love is of God. Love is the central thing in the universe."
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Our efforts may represent no more than the hem of Jesus' cloak, but whatever they touch is included in God's new Creation. And it is good.
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