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Quick, someone buy this woman a copy of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.
Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena nyti.ms/2I329XZ
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FD of St Bede (d 735), a monk in Northumbria. In his great History of the English Church and People he told the story of the arrival of Xty in the British Isles and its role in knitting together its disparate tribes and peoples into a common history, linked to the apostles.
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Interviewed today by high school students about Thomas Merton. Their first questions: Do I think Merton will be canonized? Do I think he *should* be canonized? Think I have found a theme for my talk for the International Thomas Merton Society next month. bit.ly/2X5B2S3
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FD of St. Joanna the Myrrhbearer (as known in the Orthodox Church). Luke names her among women who had been healed of evil spirits and now followed Jesus. Some clue as to the evil spirit from whom she was rescued lies in info that she was the "wife of Chuzza, Herod's steward."
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Thus, among Jesus' inner circle was the wife of a man who served at the right hand of Herod, the despot who had killed John the Baptist and would later conspire in the death of Jesus himself. Therein lies a story!
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Joanna was among the women who "stood at a distance" and watched Jesus die on a cross, and who later returned to the site of his burial with ointments to anoint his mangled body. They found the empty tomb, attended by angels who proclaimed that he had risen.
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"I'm waiting for that guy." Watch at 7:30. Jeff Daniels Says ‘It’s the End of Democracy’ if Trump Gets Re-Elected variety.com/2019/tv/news/jef… via @variety
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Beautiful reflection on #JeanVanier by Carolyn Whitney-Brown. It raises the question about what it means to be a saint--why Vanier (like Dorothy Day) embraced the call to holiness while not wishing to be put on a pedestal. sojo.net/articles/jean-vanie…
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May 21, Feast Day of Bd Franz Jagerstatter. Terrence Malick's new film "A Hidden Life," tells the story of his singular witness against Nazi idolatry. A good time to share again the video based on my reflections. @SheenCenter @GiveUsThisDayLP binged.it/2JyR6ZF
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The monks were abducted in March 1996. In May they were beheaded. The Armed Islamic Group, in rebellion against the secularist military government, claimed responsibility. Their story is told in the film, "Of Gods and Men." and here: bit.ly/2JyDddY @OrbisBooks
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The Trappist martyrs of Algeria, who were beatified last December, chose to remain in their monastery, even following death threats. They had offered their contemplative life as a witness to the One God of all and to friendship among all God's children.
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