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Celebrating good news: 5 @OrbisBooks titles won Excellence in Publishing Awards from the Association of Catholic Publishers. catholicpublishers.org/2020-…: including 4 First Places by @ChristineSchenk, @MJonesQuidenup, @DanHoranOFM and myself (😎)
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1st Place, bio: Christine Schenk, "To Speak the Truth in Love"; 1st Place, Spirituality, Michelle Jones, ed., "Ruth Burrows: Essential Writings; 1st Place, Theology, Daniel Horan, "Catholicity & Emerging Personhood"; 1st Place, Inspirational, Robert Ellsberg, "A Living Gospel."
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Third Place, General Interest: Gerard O'Connell, "The Election of Pope Francis." @gerryorome
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The master mourned the brave volunteers and food tasters who had succumbed in the course of his experimental arsenic treatments. That was the price of science, but still, he said, it was sad when it happened. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidic Judaism, d May 22 1760. He proclaimed a mysticism of the everyday. Within each task and moment there is a spark of the divine. It falls to each person to discover and fulfill the potential holiness imbedded within ordinary existence.
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As he lay dying, surrounded by his family and followers, he said, “I am not worried at all for I know that I am leaving through one door and entering through another door.”
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The master had forewarned his wife: “Mark this, whomsoever I kiss is the one I will disinherit.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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May 21, Feast Day of Bd. Franz Jagerstatter. Video from @SheenCenter and @GiveUsThisDayLP offers.giveusthisday.org/ble…
Feast Day of Bd. Franz Jagerstatter, Austrian peasant, devout Catholic, who was beheaded by the Nazis on August 9, 1943 for refusing to serve in Hitler's army. He believed Nazis were a satanic movement, and taking oath to Hitler would be a mortal sin. bit.ly/2ICqR0j
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We don't get to choose the circumstances of our coming into the world, or of our 50th anniversary--but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate. @OrbisBooks. Many thanks to @MaryknollFrsBrs, our staff (past and present), our readers, our courageous authors. orbisbooks.com
Happy 50th Anniversary to @RobertEllsberg and the fine people at @OrbisBooks - the outstanding religious publisher sponsored by @MaryknollFrsBrs
Learn more in Publisher's Letter here: orbisbooks.com/
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“God, my Father, you love and forgive me, so TODAY I accept all as gift...and ask to find you Lord the Giver in the gift. I choose to face life without fear and to live wholeheartedly in each present moment.”—Sr Irene Mc ormack, RSJ
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