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Feast of St Brigid of Ireland : “She supplied beer out of one barrel to 18 churches, which sufficed from Maundy Thursday to the end of paschal time.” Another time she turned water to milk which, having drunk from it, did cure a leprous woman. And many other wonders.
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From the man who said, “I would bring back waterboarding, and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,”
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Even as the master steadily aged, a portrait in his study somehow retained its original youthful glow. By kneeling regularly before this painting he thought he might indefinitely extend his health and virility. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Pope Francis: "Christ’s resurrection is not an event of the past; it contains a vital power which has permeated this world. Where all seems to be dead, signs of the resurrection suddenly spring up. It is an irresistible force. . .
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Often it seems that God does not exist: all around us we see persistent injustice, evil, indifference and cruelty. But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit. . .
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On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly. However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world beauty is born anew, it rises transformed through the storms of history. Values always tend to reappear under new guises,. . .
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Sadly, we are living in the same world he confronted—a “post-Christian” world in which we could imagine blowing up humanity for the defense of “democracy”— and yet with reason to hope in the gospel message that there is a power stronger than death and deceit.
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Once in his youth, the master had tried to apologize to a peasant woman he had wronged, but his father unbraided him: “Being a master means never having to say you’re sorry.” Later he proudly passed this lesson to his son.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Panel assesses Dorothy Day’s impact on Church and their own lives. “She did not look back. She just kept going.” cathstan.org/news/us-world/p…
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Jan 31, birthday of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk. In 1967 in a “Letter on the Contemplative Life” he addressed his “brother” in the world: “My brother, perhaps in my solitude I have become as it were an explorer for you, a searcher in realms in which you are not able to visit...
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“I have learned to rejoice that Jesus is in the world in people who know Him not, that He is at work in them when they think themselves far from Him, and it is my joy to tell you to hope...Hope not because you think you can be good, but because God loves us irrespective of ...
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One day the master determined to prove to his dresser that he could still fit into the same undergarments he wore in his days at the Academy. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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As guests were arriving for Madame’s garden club, the chef demanded to know who had stolen all the cookies from the cookie jar. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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"If I have read the Bible correctly I know many who have never heard the name of Jesus or have even rejected the official interpretation of Xty, who will, probably, if Jesus came in our midst today in the flesh, be owned by him more than many of us."--Mohandas Gandhi d 1/30 1948
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