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The cancellation of St Patrick fests might be an occasion to recover the memory of the saint as a witness to radical reconciliation and human solidarity. Patrick, a victim of Irish trafickimg and slavery, returned to Ireland to implant the seeds of his own hard-won faith.
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Franziska Jagerstatter (d 3/16/2013) stood by her husband Franz, when he faced death rather than take a military oath to Hitler. Afterward she wrote, "I have lost a good husband and exemplary father for my children... However, the loving God had ordained things to be otherwise...
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....I already look forward to our reunion in heaven where no war can any longer separate us." Her letters with Franz in prison are available from @orbisbooks.
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Somewhere in a parallel universe: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every 1 of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
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In these times remembering the story of Florence Nightingale (1820-1920), pioneer of modern nursing. Tho born into the highest circles of English society she believed herself called to some higher service. This took the form of an imperative call to nursing.
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This was considered a disreputable task for one of her station and her father forbade it—yet she persisted. After years of studying books on medicine and disease she took a course on nursing in Germany and afterward won appointment as head of a small London charity hospital.
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There she implemented her ideas on sanitation, nutrition, proper ventilation. With outbreak of Crimean War she won support to take control of 38 nurses to join troops in Turkey. Finding the military hospital in disgraceful conditions she set out to restore order and cleanliness.
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Before long she was put in charge of the entire medical service in the war. Mortality rate was reduced by 50%. Her kindness to the wounded soldiers became the stuff of legend and she returned to England a national hero. Yet her work was only beginning.
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For the next 50 yrs she campaigned tirelessly for medical reform. She wrote a classic text on nursing and established 1st modern nursing school. Her achievements all the more impressive given that after her return from Crimea mysterious ailments confined her to her bed. #Nursing
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“I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say I pray for you when they know that that's not so.”—President Donald J Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast one month ago
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Feast of St Louise de Marillac (1660), who with St Vincent de Paul founded the Daughters of Charity. A novel religious community of women living outside of enclosure, devoted to apostolic service among the poor—their “masters.” Throughout history new forms of religious life...
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... have arisen in response to new challenges. It makes one wonder what new forms of religious life may be called forth from the challenges of global pandemic, climate change, migration, peace, etc.
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To paraphrase #DorothyDay, where are the saints not simply to bind up the wounds of a broken social order and wounded planet but to change the world, to fashion a spirituality and apostolate of global solidarity?
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This makes so much sense!
Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” wapo.st/39MCAqB
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El Salvador is trying suspects in the notorious El Mozote massacre. The judge is demanding crucial evidence: U.S. … washingtonpost.com/world/the…
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