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At yesterday’s Maryknoll symposium on #DorothyDay Kate Hennessy shared some of the lessons she learned from her grandmother: 1. follow your vocation (you will know it from the joy it brings you); 2. Follow your conscience; 3. Do what you can (you can always do more);...
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When her husband died, they drove Elizabeth from the castle in the middle of the night, carrying only her newborn baby. She found shelter in a pig-shed. She supported herself by spinning and fishing and continued visiting the sick in the hospices she had endowed.
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30 years ago on Nov 16/1989—the massacre of the Jesuit community of the C. American Univ of San Salvador. Their bodies were left on the lawn outside their residence. Today a rose garden planted by the husband of their housekeeper, Elba Ramos, and their daughter Celina, also slain
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Many remembered Archbishop Romero’s words, a decade before: “I am glad that they have murdered priests in this country, because it would be very sad if in a country where they are murdering the people so horrifically, there were no priests among the victims.”
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Because when you talk on-on-one you have to be open to the possibility that this encounter will change you or demand some response. (same for me)
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In the early morning hours of Nov 16 1989, 30 yrs ago, army commandos invaded the Central American University in San Salvador and massacred the Jesuit community—6 priests, plus their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
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Tomorrow: November 16.
Just found out this will be available on live-streaming: maryknollsisters.org/livestr…
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The master was unhappy when a deputy inspector asked questions about his business dealings. Thanks to the swift action of his attorney he could reassure his partners she would no longer be a problem: “She was bad news,” he explained. His friends rejoiced.—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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50 years ago on Nov 15 1969, half a million demonstrators gathered in Washington for the second Moratorium against the Vietnam war. Nixon claimed to have watched a college football game; the war went on another 5 1/2 yrs. Many may have wondered whether it made any difference.
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Thank you for this thread. We all have our moments.
Working on a piece of memoir and my attention wandered back to a moment in graduate school that was very significant to my intellectual life and faith.
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago served the church in many capacities—yet perhaps he offered his greatest gift and witness simply by the manner of his death. (November 14 996) Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he announced, “I can say in all sincerity that I am at peace.”
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“I consider this as God’s special gift to me at this moment in my life. We can look at death as an enemy or a friend. If we see it as an enemy death causes anxiety and fear.. As a person of faith I see death as a friend, as a transition from earthly life to life eternal.”
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In a book written in his last months he wished to “help others understand how the good and the bad are always present in our human condition, and that if we ‘let go,’ if we place ourselves in the hands of the Lord, the good will prevail.” This was a lifelong process.
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