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So proud to attend the remote graduation of my daughter Christina from @UnionSeminary. Dare I say a future @OrbisBooks author?
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In the midst of a pandemic, economic collapse, and electoral challenge POTUS is implementing a kind of Operation Valkyrie—mobilizing his forces to suppress a fake “coup” attempt by his predecessor.
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Emily Dickinson died May 15 1886. “Little Cousins, called back.”
#MastersofSocialIsolation. 1. Emily Dickinson, who withdrew to her home in Amherst and adopted the life of a recluse or “stationary pilgrim.” She maintained a lively correspondence but had little personal contact beyond her family, saving her energies for observation and poetry.
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The origins of “Mastergate,” the master’s claim that all failures on the estate were caused by his predecessor, lay in the time someone left the gate open and all the sheep ran free. It explained so many things: a bad harvest,forgetting his anniversary, etc. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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To peasants who complained of lacking proper tools the master said they should complain to the former master, who failed to stock supplies before his untimely passing. “Mastergate,” he claimed, was possibly the greatest scandal in the history of the Estate. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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I also raised this possibility with Sr. Wendy. If Julian did not have the companionship of a cat, she might have had other, less delightful, companions.
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Writing to #SrWendy was like having a private mail box for Julian of Norwich (with whom she deeply identified--not only as a hermit, but in their shared view of Christ's victory over suffering and death). I asked whether she thought it likely that Julian had a cat in her cell:
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"There is no evidence whatever that Julian had a cat. The very suggestion comes from the Anchren Reule, which says that anchorites might like to have a cat. Judging from myself, I would be very surprised if Julian had one. If your vocation is to solitude, as Julian's was..
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"...and in its humble way mine, then solitude it must be. God fills your whole being and you really haven't got room for a close friend of any species." That said, she admitted to favoring cats over dogs: "Cats do not have that easy trustfulness and need of humanity...
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Not only that but he submitted to censorship by his order with articles on nuclear war and peace (which now represent official church teaching) and which contained nothing contrary to doctrine. Here are two books he could not publish. Now: @OrbisBooks
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On May 13 1373 Julian of Norwich received the first of her revelations, later recorded in a book—the first written by a woman in the English language. Thomas Merton called her unquestionably (with Newman) the greatest English theologian.
#MastersofSocialIsolation (4) Julian of Norwich, a 14th-cen English mystic, spent half her life as an anchoress, enclosed in a cell attached to her local church. From a small window she could receive food and offer spiritual advice, while from another she could view the altar.
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