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No matter how often he was told that the barn fire was caused by a cow, the old man reverted to his theory about Ukrainians. They had also tricked him into betting on a losing horse. His lawyer was looking into it..—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Many years ago my youngest drew a portrait of me. When I asked why there seemed to be a spike sticking out of my head she said, “That’s your bald spot.”
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The title of the statue is “Angels Unawares”— from Hebrews 13:21: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
#PopeFrancis unveils a statue in honour of World day of migrants and refugees earlier today. The statue was named “Angels Unawares” by Canadian artist, Timothy Schmaltz, in St Peter’s Square.
(Photos: Vatican media)
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“Boris, I’d like you to do us a small favor, tho. Many people are still wondering about the whole situation of whether Paul is really dead.”
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It was not a “bad call”— it was a phony excuse. It achieved its true purpose, so nothing, from their perspective, to apologize for.
“There is no creature, however lowly, in which one cannot recognize that God made me; there is none that does not astound reason if properly meditated on.”—Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1690)
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“O most honored Greening Force,
You who roots in the Sun;
You who lights up, in shining serenity, within a wheel
that earthly excellence fails to comprehend. ...
You redden like the dawn
and you burn: flame of the Sun.”
– Hildegard von Bingen
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“Scripture tells us that the picture of judgment presented to us by Jesus is of Dives sitting and feasting with his friends while Lazarus sat hungry at the gate, the dogs ...licking his sores. We are Dives. Woe to the rich! *We* are the rich.”—Dorothy Day
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#PopeFrancis unveils a new sculpture of migrants and refugees in St Peter’s Square
“As Christians, we cannot be indifferent to the tragedy of old and new forms of poverty, to the bleak isolation, contempt and discrimination experienced by those who do not belong to ‘our’ group”
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The depiction of St Jerome with a lion comes from a confusion of his Latin name—Geronimus—with the desert hermit St Gerasimus who removed a thorn from the paw of a lion that afterward became his devoted companion and died of grief upon the St’s passing. washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Bd. Richard Rolle, English hermit and mystic, died of plague on Sept 29 1349. Having perfected a “mirth in the love of God” he could find God equally in people, nature or solitude. “If our love be pure and perfect, whatever our heart loves, it is God.”
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Are humans designed to care only for their immediate tribe, their present safety and comfort? If so, we will not survive the threat of climate change and nuclear doomsday. Only if we evolve to care for the earth, distant strangers, future generations as we do for our own.
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It is one thing for a species to adapt physically to a changing habitat. But now the fate of countless species--and our own--depends on our capacity for a kind of moral/spiritual evolution. Our religious institutions and theologies must undergo a similar evolutionary leap.
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For Christians, the reference point is Jesus, who showed a new way of being human. Many other saints and prophets have pointed the way: St. Francis, St. Hildegard, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Sr. Dorothy Stang. Where are these new creatures? Already among us.
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