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My daughter in a course reflecting on how liturgies might respond to climate change. Confessing to houseplants might seem silly— but what about glaciers, whales, the Amazon, Monarch butterflies, the 🌏 — which rarely figure in our confession of what we have done and failed to do.
Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.
What do you confess to the plants in your life?
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It was only after his death, from a ms called “Marking,” that the world learned of the deeply private faith that underlay Dag Hammarskjold’s life of public service. In aphoristic reflections he described his “negotiations with God and myself.”
9/18/61 Dag Hammarskjold, Sec Gen of the UN, died in the Congo when his plane crashed (shot down?). The rare global leader who combined public service with a sense of religious vocation: "Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
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“I don’t know Who—or what—put the question...I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal...
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James Cone can have that effect. bu.edu/articles/2019/hes-bla…
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“Who do you like better, the country or the Saudis. I don’t know, I have to be honest with you...”
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For the Feast Day of St Hildegard of Bingen—prophet, mystic, healer, artist, composer, and Doctor of the Church. Though canonized only in 2012, her ecological message speaks powerfully to the needs of our time.
Here is the 8th and latest video based on my reflections on saints. Thanks to @SheenCenter and @GiveUsThisDayLP BLESSED AMONG US: ST HILDEGARD OF BINGEN piped.video/zF3mhF16rOY via @YouTube
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Thank you! May I suggest my new book, "A Living Gospel: Reading God's Story in Holy Lives" which has much more extensive treatment of #DorothyDay, as well as #ThomasMerton, #HenriNouwen, and others. orbisbooks.com/a-living-gosp…
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Regarding an announcement for a forthcoming talk: “Just want you to know that we have immediately caught the typo under your bio! It says ‘long time ediot in chief’ of Orbis books. Profuse apologies.”
Ok, I’ve been called worse.
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