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Thank you. When I attended Mass in a slum church in Nairobi they asked me if it was like my parish. I said except for the 3-hr liturgy, the crowds of young people, the singing and dancing and the joy and enthusiasm it was just like my parish.
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FD St Théodore Guérin, founder of the Srs of Providence of St Mary of the Woods (1856). She and 5 sisters arrived from France on their mission in America in 1840, responding to a call from the bishop of Vincennes, IN. Their new home was a log cabin in the middle of a forest.
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Apart from the harsh conditions, the Srs faced a greater challenge from their new bishop who regarded the community as his personal possession and sought to control their affairs in every detail. Mother Guérin described it as a “species of slavery.”
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He locked Guérin in his house, would not let her leave until she acceded to his demands, and informed her community that she was no longer the superior and not even a Sr of Providence— he had released her from her vows. He ordered her to leave the diocese “to hide her disgrace.”
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He told the Srs if they yielded he would “love and protect” them but otherwise they would share their Mother’s fate. When they
said they would follow their Mother the bishop said they would all be excommunicated and he might even have them pursued by the law.
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At that point came a miraculous reprieve: word from the Vatican that a new bishop had been appointed. The Srs unpacked their bags and eagerly awaited the return of Mother Guérin. The congregation grew and prospered. Mother Guérin was canonized in 2006. #WomenintheChurch
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My latest, for @NewYorker, on the ties among Donald Trump, AG Barr, and Catholic conservatives, whose ideas of "ordered liberty" (we saw this coming) now sponsor autocracy and state violence against the American people newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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FD of Bd. Antoine Chevrier (d 1879), who critiqued worldliness among the clergy and formed a religious society of priests in France who would be "poor and for the poor." While caring for the poor he also denounced conditions of social injustice that caused such misery.
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Ardeth Platte, Dominican nun and antinuclear activist, dies at 84 washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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Dorothy Day wanted to write a book about St Therese to emphasize the “social implications” of her Little Way—the importance of the little things we do, or fail to do—the lonely protests, the small acts of resistance: these were the loaves and fishes. God would make the increase.
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FD of St Therese of Lisieux: “After my death I will let fall a shower of roses. I will spend my heaven in doing good upon earth.”
St Therese believed that through the practice of love in everyday chores and encounters one could transform the ordinary business of life into the fuel of holiness and, by the small molecular influence of each action, transform the world. Patron saint of mission.
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The master was a formidable debater. Challenged, he would mount a furious rebuttal, waving his saber, upending chairs and shouting “What about the Ukraine? What about bears? Look at Gypsies! Look at the price of blini! Look at me!”until the room had cleared. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Dorothy Day was often accused of not being a real Catholic because of her support for conscientious objectors and her opposition to war.
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