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More about Dorothy Sayers and her brilliance here. My entry for @GiveUsThisDayLP for December 2918. See especially her reflection in how Jesus regarded women.
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RIP Doris Day. In heaven, presumably, she will no longer have to contend with people confusing her with the founder of the Catholic Worker movement.
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Wonderful piece by @kayaoakes a propos the feast of Julian of Norwich. But as I approach the magical age foretold by Paul McCartney, I must say the 60s aren't so bad.
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My mother died 6 years ago this month at 82. A psychologist. When I introduced her to another psychologist he said, "I went into this to deal with my own neuroses." She said, "That goes without saying." I write about her in my new book, coming out next month: "A Living Gospel."
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FD of Julian of Norwich (d 1416), English mystic who spent much of her life as an anchoress, enclosed in a cell attached to her local parish. From her "room without a view" she composed her "Revelations," a striking window into the mystery of God's love.
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Her reflections were based on a series of visions she experienced while gazing on the crucifix in the midst of terrible illness. She saw that Christ's sufferings revealed the depth of Love for humanity and the impotence of evil. Though creation was no more than a hazlenut ...
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...in the hand of God, its value was measure by the price God was prepared to pay for it in blood. And in the end Christ's suffering became our joy with the realization that we are all "soul and body, clad and enclosed in the goodness of God."
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Her most famous line: "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." See: Veronica Rolf, "Julian's Gospel." orbisbooks.com/julians-gospe…
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Daniel Berrigan and his mother. “It occurred to me long after my mother’s death... that such a woman might safely have been entrusted with the fate of the world.”
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“No human creature can receive or contain such a strong flood of love and joy as that which I felt frequently after my daughter’s birth; from it derived the need to praise and to worship”.—Dorothy Day
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May 11 1973, 46 years ago, the judge in my father’s case dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct that “offends the sense of justice.” He had faced 115 years in prison for releasing the Pentagon Papers. @DanielEllsberg
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Thanks for being a fan but I think you are making assumptions. I respect the pastor for sharing her poignant personal story. As Pope Francis says, ours is not a “laboratory faith” but a “journey faith.”
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Once Christianity was accepted as part of Chinese culture, others could spread the gospel among the masses. Unfortunately his strategy was undone by Vatican officials whose philosophy was, in effect, “When in China, do as the Romans.”
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The issue was the veneration of ancestors, a critical feature of Confucianism, in which Ricci saw no conflict with Christian morality, but which the Church deemed idolatrous. The condemnation of “ancestor worship” by papal decree closed the door that Ricci had opened.
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