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The church needs to completely revise its categories for female holiness.
"Young people need guidance to make choices about sex and love, but they won’t get it from a church that’s still telling girls they’re better off dead than raped."
@MollieOReilly: Stop making victims of sexual Assault into martyrs for virginity: buff.ly/3bptWlg
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All true. Sorry about "reeks." But the purpose of occasional spiritual housecleaning is exactly so we can enjoy life in abundance.
the generosity of the baboon. From the Shona people she learned a name for God: The One Who Turns Things Upside Down. Africa remained always in her soul: "I am a wiser, gentler, more outgoing, more religious, and freer person because of Africa." Goodbye, my friend. Safe travels.
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Today we lost another great Maryknoll Sister, Janice McLaughlin, 79, former President of the Congregation. Her mission vocation was stimulated by pictures of giraffes in National Geographic, and she somehow knew that Africa would be her destiny. After work in Kenya, she moved to
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Rhodesia to serve as press secretary for the Rhodesian Justice and Peace Commission. It was during the struggle against the white-minority gov't of Ian Smith. She was arrested in Aug '77, held in solitary, and charged as a Communist subversive. Jail was her "novitiate."
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"I felt part of something bigger than myself. I felt bigger than myself. I was suffering for a cause and the pain and fear no longer mattered. I was not alone. I was with the oppressed people, and God was there with us in our prison cells." Eventually, she was exiled.
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Today’s gospel: Jesus cleansing the Temple. Lent, an opportunity to cleanse our lives of all that reeks of commerce, noise, distraction—to recover our true purpose.
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Careful the things you say
Children will listen
Careful the things you do
Children will see and learn
Children may not obey but children will listen
Children will look to you for which way to turn
To learn what to be
Careful before you say Listen to me
(Sondheim, Into the woods)
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Happy to share this dialogue with @MirabaiStarr, part of the @shiftnetwork's Mystics Summit 2021. The focus was #DorothyDay, but our conversation also referenced the influence my father @DanielEllsberg and my friendship with #SisterWendyBeckett. bit.ly/3rio6HL
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“Sometimes the impossible does happen. Be ready!” @maddow preaches the gospel message at a time when things sometimes seem hopeless, or more likely, just too hard.
Beautiful piece! Thank you @maddow! And thank you for your inspiring life and example Fr Kapaun and @Pontifex.
The Rachel Maddow Show – "Impossible" on Vimeo vimeo.com/520259239
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Today’s gospel: parable of the Prodigal Son, a beloved account of God’s boundless mercy toward sinners. But the real object of the parable is indicated by its context—a rejoinder to good religious people who are muttering about Jesus’ dining with sinners. Their counterpart:
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The “elder son” in the parable who looks on resentfully and complains about the father’s super-abundant mercy. Thus the parable has a polemical edge—not so much directed at sinners, assuring them of God’s love, but at the spiritual stinginess of the righteous, who believe God’s
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Jean-Pierre de Caussade, French Jesuit, author of “Abandonment to Divine Providence” d March 6 1751. In brief, he outlines the path to holiness that lies in the performance of our everyday tasks and duties. Every moment, a gift from God, bears the stamp of God’s will for us.
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Caussade speaks of the “sacrament of the present moment”: each moment a veil or shadow behind which the will of God awaits our discernment. To live in this consciousness is to awaken to the sacred depths of our existence. Acceptance of what God sends us in the present moment is
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