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Holy Saturday meditation:Betsie Ten Boom was dying In Ravensbruck concentration camp where she and her sister Corrie had been sent for sheltering Jews. “We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that [God] is not deeper still.”
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A fine reading of @ctrlamb’s “The Outsider@ in @The_Tablet @OrbisBooks Ebook available, print on its way.
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Beautiful reflection by @Paul_R_Elie Pope Francis and the Coronavirus Pandemic During the Easter Holy Week newyorker.com/news/daily-com… via @NewYorker
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Meditation for Good Friday: What have we done to put Jesus on the Cross? What are we doing to take him down? (Credit Jon Sobrino.) (Art: Fritz Eichenberg, Marc Chagall, Gwyneth Leech)
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Thread by @RobertEllsberg: German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed 75 years ago today, April 9 1945, for his part in a conspiracy Hitler. "The church's task is not simply to bind the wounds of the victim beneath the wheel, but also to put a sp… threadreaderapp.com/thread/1…
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“Once this Good Friday is behind us, and it will be sooner rather than later (except sadly for friends and family of the Nazarene), it must be quickly forgotten. Our Great Empire will BOOM—perhaps more than ever before.”—Pontus Pilate
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“Once this Good Friday is behind us, and it will be sooner rather than later (except sadly for friends and family of the Nazarene), it must be quickly forgotten. Our Great Empire will BOOM—perhaps more than ever before.”—Pontus Pilate
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest, scientist, mystic, died on April 10 1955 (Easter Sunday). A prophet who labored to reconcile the language of science and religion; a mystic afire with a vision of the divine mystery at the heart of the cosmos.
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Little of this was recognized in his life as he was denied permission by Rome and SJ superiors to publish any of his theological writings, to lecture, or teach. "I think that my function is probably simply that of John the Baptist, that is, of one who presages what is to come."
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For Teilhard the world was charged with divine energy. This insight was nourished by his devotion to the Eucharist. But many times while on the road he lacked the requirements for Mass. Thus, in the Gobi desert, he was inspired to write his Mass on the World:
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"Since once again, Lord...I have neither bread nor wine nor altar I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself; I, your priest, will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labors and suffering of the world."
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POTUS always “forgets” to mention that while his pandemic briefings score 8 mill viewers, that is hardly “through the roof” compared to Season 9 of “Two and a Half Men” (28 mil)— more like Arthur Godfrey’s Talents Scouts (1952: 8.2 mill). But still good by campaign ad standards.
The Wall Street Journal always “forgets” to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are “through the roof” (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to @nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News!
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Thanks Pat McNamara for a look at one of my favorite books. A Letter from the Desert - go.shr.lc/3b1keD0 via @Shareaholic
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...from the affair but how the coming generation is to live." Then, there is the vision forged in the confinement of his last years, which outlined a way of talking about God in secular language. "I should like to speak of God not on the boundaries but at the center,...
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...not in weaknesses but in strength, and therefore not in death and guilt, but in man's life and goodness. God is beyond in the midst of our life." Christ didn't call us to some holy life set apart from the world and its concrete demands.
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Following Christ was a matter of engagement in this world, "living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures... In doing so we throw ourselves into the arms of God." He embraced a new standpoint from which to engage the world:
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"We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled--in short, from the perspective of those who suffer."
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