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On Feb 2 1945 German Jesuit Fr. Alfred Delp was hanged as an enemy of the Reich. A former student of Karl Rahner, he was permitted to make his final vows in prison. In chains, under constant surveillance, he wrote meditations on Advent and the future of humanity.
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"In the course of these last long weeks life has become suddenly much less rigid...Things are clearer and at the same time more profound. Above all God has become almost tangible. Things I have always known and believed now seem so concrete; I believe them but I also live them."
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"One thing is clear. I must surrender myself completely. This is seed-time, not harvest. God sows the seed and some time or other he will do the reaping. The one thing I must do is make sure the seed falls in fertile ground. And I must arm myself against pain and depression....
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In lieu of a typical legal defense, the former master posed the idea of a single speech to the jury filled with such pathos and conviction as to soften the most callused heart. He searched history for the right speech. He knew the actor who could deliver it. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Good for @JoyAnnReid for highlighting the case of Reality Winner.
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St Brigid was born into slavery, yet became the abbess of a double monastery and a renowned spiritual teacher. Her only desire was “to satisfy the poor, to expel every hardship, to spare every miserable man.” Her miracles reflect her propensity to nourish and give succor.
Feast of St Brigid of Ireland : “She supplied beer out of one barrel to 18 churches, which sufficed from Maundy Thursday to the end of paschal time.” Another time she turned water to milk which, having drunk from it, did cure a leprous woman. And many other wonders.
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The real Rosa Parks. via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opini…
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The former master began interviewing a new team of lawyers—not like his former “dream team,” but seasoned street fighters who spoke with authority and would work on spec. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Feast of St Marcella (410), a wealthy widow of Rome who gave away her fortune, “preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.” She founded one of the first communities of Christian women. St Jerome served as their spiritual advisor.
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Rest In Peace, Maryknoll Sr Mary Grenough, who died today Jan 30 2021, at 87. She worked in the Philippines for 40 years, where she was a pioneer in promoting social justice, in 1971 joining striking sugar cane workers on the Island of Negros, essentially a giant plantation.
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