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May 16 1164, death of Heloise, Abbess of the Convent of the Paraclete. Through her correspondence with Abelard, her ill-fated husband, she emerges as one of the great minds and hearts of her time. Did she find peace in the end? (Her story told here: amzn.to/2E9ts1h
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Each life converges to some center
Expressed or still--
Exists in every human nature
A goal---
Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be--
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare...
Ungained, it may be, by life's low venture,
But then--
Eternity enables the endeavoring
Again.
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Remembering the death date of Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker. Some said that he was "holier than thou." Dorothy Day said, "Peter *was* holy--holier than anyone we ever knew." May 15, 1959.
"[Peter Maurin] had a more radical idea that rather than fighting for a decent hourly wage, that people should be struggling for a world where no one is working for money in the first place."
ncronline.org/news/environme… via @ncronline
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Emily Dickinson d May 15, 1886. She spent most of her life as a kind of recluse, hermit, or "stationary pilgrim" in her family home in Amherst, MA. Only after her death, and the discovery of 1,775 poems, was it clear how she had spent her time. Deceptively simple, they reflected
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a complex personal approach to the world. Many addressed her relationship with God--on her own terms, wavering between doubt and faith. With a great eye for nature, she saw the universe in a grain of sand. All things were a harbor opening on the great expanse of eternity.
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FD of St Isidore, a poor Spanish peasant who d on May 15 1130. Among the great Sts canonized with him (St Ignatius, St Teresa) he stands out for his ordinariness. He is simply one of the “little ones” beloved of God. Among canonized Sts quite rare—in heaven, presumably, less so.
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Thank you! Several other books since then, as well as my daily column in @GiveUsThisDayLP. I hope they give you more to look forward to.
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Superb commentary from @ChristineSchenk: "Jesus' seminal egalitarian vision was attractive to both women and men. So what happened? A struggle with the larger patriarchal culture is what happened." In early Xty women's coequal leadership was the scandal. Today the opposite.
My take on female diaconate ncronline.org/news/opinion/s…
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After the death of the treacherous Judas, St. Matthias was chosen by the casting of lots to make up the original number of 12 apostles.
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