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Fearing that low morale might turn to sedition the master invited all his workers to come to the manor and receive a piece of free cheese. A festive time was had by all until it became clear that the substance was not exactly cheese and was not exactly free. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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In his first declaration as overseer of the health crisis, Mikhail praised the master for his vast foresight in banning all Ukrainians and revenue collectors from the estate. “I shudder to think how much worse the situation might have been,” he said. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Catholic Worker confronts new era ncronline.org/news/people/ca… via @ncronline
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Thanks to Spirituality & Practice for the review! spiritualityandpractice.com/…
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Another martyr of charity: Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig.
Engelmar Unzeitig, a German priest, was sent to Dachau for making "insidious expressions" in defense of the Jews. During a typhoid outbreak he was one of 20 priests who volunteered to serve as an orderly in the barracks where the infected were left to die. He died on 3/2/1945.
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With concerns over the virus mounting, the master congratulated himself for appointing his manservant Mikhhail, a former bootblack in the Imperial Army, to oversee the crisis. “No one knows more about the importance of washing your hands,” he said. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Narayan Desai was the son of Gandhi’s secretary, Mahadev Desai, who died in prison. I visited his widow and family in Gujarat last fall. Noble lineage.
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First time I’ve ever seen him genuinely happy— as if he had cleared what seemed like an impossible bar: to be the “first black president” endorsed by the KKK. Take that, Obama!
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The master was automatically attracted to symbols of power—his academy uniform, his bullwhip, the revolver that was a gift from the District Commissioner. He would just start kissing them, like a magnet. He didn’t even wait, except to ingest a breath mint. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Thank you! Then you will appreciate why Chekhov’s or Dostoevsky’s Tales of Trump just wouldn’t be the same,
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Really enjoyed this conversation on @FrancisFXpod at LA Religious Educ Congress. For those interested in listening to my thoughts on holiness, Dorothy Day, and the Beatitudes, my segment begins at 6:40. (The photo is @JamesMartinSJ with @DanHoranOFM and David Dault.)
Fr. Dan and David visit the LA Religious Education Congress in Anaheim to speak with Robert ... francisfxpod.com/current/200… @FrancisFXpod
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As the master awaited his lunch he suddenly felt himself surrounded by the spirits of all who had died in his service. They called on him to amend his ways and show mercy to the poor. But when he looked around he saw no one there. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The master ordered his majordomo to go on the offensive, castigating those “enemies of the estate” who were suggesting that his own Miracle Pond Water was the actual source of contagion. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“If Jesus himself came across the border at Chalatenango, they wouldn’t let him in. They would accuse [him] of being a rabble-rouser, a foreign Jew, who confused the people with exotic and foreign ideas,... they would crucify him again.”—Salvadoran martyr Rutilio Grande SJ
“...if Christ Himself walked through these doors, [teaching] that we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, that we should fight for the least of us…He would be maligned as a radical and rejected…” Amen.
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Publicly the master put on a face of optimism, but privately he was seething. The epidemic “hoax” on his estate had caused a sharp decline in sales of his Miracle Pond Water. “Don’t they realize that my pond water is the best defense for all ailments?” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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