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The master enjoyed visits from his Turkish partner. They had forged a bond as powerful men whose servants tried to take credit for their achievements. In a mood of frivolity they indulged in arm-wrestling contests and laughed at the master’s dancing bear.—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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FD of St Frances Xavier Cabrini (d 1850) founded a missionary order to go to China. The pope told her her mission was “not in the East but in the West”—among the masses of Italian immigrants in the US who were crowding the cities with no one to care for them. She set out in 1889.
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FD of St Frances Xavier Cabrini (d 1850) founded a missionary order to go to China. The pope told her her mission was “not in the East but in the West”—among the masses of Italian immigrants in the US who were crowding the cities with no one to care for them. She set out in 1889.
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Though told that the bishop of NY had an orphanage awaiting her she found there was no orphanage. She had missed a letter telling her not to come. The bishop wanted priests, not sisters. She replied, “Excellence, in all humbleness I must say, in America I stay.”
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So she did—serving not only NY’s Italian immigrants but establishing schools and orphanages around the country. She once balked at taking over a hospital until she had a dream in which the Blessed Mother was nursing the sick. “I am doing the work you refused to do on my behalf.”
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Based on a book published by @OrbisBooks “Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison.”
Saw Terrence Malick’s newest film “A Hidden Life” tonight @SidGrauman! A beautiful, transcendent and moving experience. I also saw @RobertEllsberg on the end credits!
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The book is based on a book published @OrbisBooks “Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison.” I didn’t know I was personally credited.
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Just found out this will be available on live-streaming: maryknollsisters.org/livestr…
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There were many before him, including St. Maximilian, St. Marcellus, etc. What was striking about St. Martin is that he laid down his weapons after Christianity was the officially recognized religion of the Empire.
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Birthday of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (11/12 1651)—nun, first great poet of Latin America, prodigious scholar, author of the first theological work by a woman in the New World, champion of equality for women in the church. She defended her call to learning as a God-given calling.
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FD of St. Martin of Tours (397), a Roman soldier serving in France. Many paintings depict the time when Martin cut his cloak in two and shared it with a shivering beggar. That night he dreamed that Christ was dressed in the cloak he had given. He declared himself a Christian.
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...but nevertheless sacred duty of exposing official Christianity for what he believed it to be: a counterfeit and a fraud. Thus, indirectly, he hoped to bear witness to the truth. For the most part the official church ignored him.
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But at least he satisfied himself himself that he had fulfilled his task as an “auditor.” (As he put it, “an apostle proclaims the truth, an auditor is responsible for discovering counterfeits.”)
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