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She knows when you are sleeping. She knows when you’re awake. She knows when you’ve been bad or good. (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.)
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Because it would be terrible if people singing “All are welcome” got the crazy idea that all are welcome.
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The master had had enough of the mockingbirds outside his boudoir. But his aim, never very sure, had only grown increasingly unreliable. And so, still they mocked him. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Remember.
On Dec 11 1981, members of the elite US-trained Atlacatl Battalion occupied the Salvadoran town of El Mozote—swollen with refugees—and massacred all the inhabitants, as many as 1000 men, women, and children.
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The master did not know the names of everyone he’d sacrificed on his path to the estate. But he recognized their faces. Sometimes their spirits surprised him as he sat at banquet. They startled him, but not enough to spoil his appetite. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Blessed are the peacemakers.
After a year of waiting since being convicted in Oct 2019, two of the seven KBP activists begin their sentences on Mon, Dec 14.
Carmen Trotta & Martha Hennessy will report by 2 pm. The risk of contracting COVID in prison is four times the rate of the general pop.
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When he was merely a New York real estate mogul and playboy, Trump could only dream of executing people.
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It was ridiculous to blame the poor harvest on his risky investment in “magic beans.” The master calculated the odds to be ridiculously low: “Approximately 1 in a quadriilion!” Silenced by such a convincing number his skeptics turned to other explanations. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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On the 52nd anniversary of Thomas Merton's death, many titles by and about him @OrbisBooks: the best illustrated biography ("Living with Wisdom"), anthology of his spiritual writings, selected essays, posthumous works on peace, and more. bit.ly/2JSXMDB
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Me too! And grateful that I was asked to reflect on the raising of Jairus’s daughter—a story that has deep personal meaning for me.
Happy to be among the contributors to this collection of homilies and reflections for Cycle B. Happy to be in the company of people like @RobertEllsberg @FrGregBoyle @FranSzpylczyn @MassimoFaggioli @PhyllisZagano and many others. @ClearFaithPub
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We need to enlarge our reflection on the Good Samaritan: adding to our care for one injured man, or our fellow human beings, a concern as well for future generations; for our non-human brother and sister creatures; for our planet, which has been attacked and injured by robbers.
1. You should know that we are 10-15 years away from Orangutans going extinct in the wild.
This isn't some hyperbolic prediction...we've lost over 100,000 Orangutans in the past 18 years.
Orangutans are our cousins and we're watching them disappear before our very eyes.
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The master had instituted a popular game, whereby, at the sound of an alarm, everyone on the estate would stop to gather and quaff a tasty beverage—which might or *might not* be laced with arsenic. In the excitement of the moment, almost no one even cared. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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