Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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He thought the question was whether he had a message for Poland on turning 80. Any fool could make that mistake.
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“If we don’t have common dreams we don’t have anything.” A powerful rebuke to the “me first” attitude of Brexit and Trump’s “populism.”
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Michael Fitzgerald, an important figure in interreligious dialogue, expecially Christian-Muslim dialogue, has just been named a Cardinal by Pope Francis. He is the author of a title from @OrbisBooks
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The new video from @SheenCenter and @GiveUsThisDayLP based on my daily reflections on saints, is incredibly timely: Sr Dorothy Stang, martyr of the Amazon. piped.video/cF5J02mOinI
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Why haven’t we stopped climate change? We’re not wired to empathize with our descendants. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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Nobel Laureate Francois Mauriac, d Sept 1 1970: “It is impossible for any one of those who has real charity in his heart not to serve Christ. Even some of those who think they hate Him have consecrated their lives to Him...
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Frances Crowe: “The bombing of Hiroshima led her to devote her life to antiwar protests. She was arrested often, but when asked how often, she said, “Not enough.” nytimes.com/2019/08/28/us/fr… via @NYTimes
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Peter Gomes: John discovered that “life had no purpose and no focus apart from the purpose and focus of God. He became in his short life the complete and total man for others, and those who knew him and loved him testify to the love of Christ that shone in and through him”
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“You could look into those eyes and see all the way, right to heaven—the goodness was so powerful and the honesty unlike anyone I’ve ever met.”—Harvard chaplain Sr Mary Evelyn Ronan on John Leary, d Aug 31 1982.
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My friend John Leary died suddenly while making his daily jog from the Pax Christi center in Cambridge where he worked to Haley House, the CW homeless shelter where he lived. He used to recite the Jesus Prayer as he jogged and was likely praying when his heart stopped. He was 24.
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In 1964 the world was shocked by reports that a young woman in Queens was killed while 38 people heard her cries but did not intervene or call for help. From the Amazon to the Arctic the 🌍 is under assault and with it all its creatures and future generations. Do we hear her cry?
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One time after a terrible storm many of the serfs were left without food or shelter. The master visited and lightened their spirits by tossing them supplies. But when they failed to thank him he vowed “Never again!”—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job. When they do, let them know it, and give them a big Thank You - Not like last time. That includes from the incompetent Mayor of San Juan!
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"James Cone, Judas and Twisted Souls: How Black Liberation Theology Can Free White Souls" po.st/vMLW2q via @sheselevated
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Evidently “Under this administration the Bible stays!” tested better as a campaign slogan than “Under this administration immigrant kids with cancer have 33 days to pick up their pallet and get the hell out of our country!” Decided to go with slogan #1, policy #2.
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Jesus replied: “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me.
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