Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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Delighted to find 6 @OrbisBooks titles named finalists for the Assoc of Catholic Publishers Book Awards: Ilia Delio’s memoir “Birth of a Dancing Star”; Christine Schenk’s bio of Sr Teresa Kane, “To Speak the Truth in Love”; my own “A Living Gospel”;
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His consolation was to trust in the “will of God”: “Not the will of God as we might wish it, or as we might have envisioned it, or as we thought in our poor human wisdom it ought to be. But the will of God as God envisioned it and revealed it to us each day ...”
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“God is in all things, sustains all things, directs all things.” In 1963 Fr Ciszek was suddenly exchanged for a Russian spy and returned home to his Jesuit family. He continued to teach the secret of happiness that is available in any circumstance—even in a prison cell.
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#MastersofSocialIsolation #14. In 1939 Walter Ciszek, an American Jesuit in Poland, was swept up in the Soviet invasion and sent to Russia. Discovered to be a priest he was charged as a spy—beginning 22 yrs in the Soviet gulag—5 yrs in solitary confinement in the Lubyanka Prison.
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To keep his wits intact he adopted a daily routine of spiritual exercises, all based on what he could remember from his Jesuit formation. So the solitary days, weeks, and years were passed. And so he could later observe, “Lubyanka, in many ways, was a school of prayer for me.”
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Earlier, I posted a series of tweets about the fallout shelters of the Cold War era. I decided to delete it. At this time, we don't need to focus on the nightmares of the past.
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Remembered to wear pants to our staff zoom meeting today and that felt like a small victory! 👏🕺👖🏆
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Feast day of St John Climacus, a Byzantine monk of the 7th cen whose book, The Ladder to Paradise, a classic of monastic spirituality, inspired this famous icon.
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“When I first found out I had cancer, I didn’t know what to pray for. I didn’t know if I should pray for healing or life or death. Then I found peace in praying for what my folks call “God’s perfect will.” As it evolved, my prayer has become, “Lord, let me live until I die.”
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30th anniv of the death of Sr Thea Bowman—prophet, preacher, witness. “What does it mean to be black and Catholic? It means that I come to my church fully functioning. I bring myself, my black self, all that I am, all that I have, all that I hope to become.” Noting that women...
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were not allowed to preach in the Catholic church she said that shouldn’t stop them from preaching everywhere else! “God has called to us to speak the word that is Christ, that is truth, that is salvation. And if we speak that word in love and faith, with patience and prayer...
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The master professed himself a great friend and admirer of the Imperial Family but he felt the admiration didn’t always travel both ways. When it was reported that the Duchess would visit the Estate he had it known there would be a cash bar and she must empty her own chamberpot.
I am a great friend and admirer of the Queen & the United Kingdom. It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada. Now they have left Canada for the U.S. however, the U.S. will not pay for their security protection. They must pay!
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