Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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“The way to God lies through love of people. At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners.”
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He said it was a great liberation to realize he doesn’t need to have everyone like him. Not everyone liked Jesus or likes Pope Francis. But he does receive much affirmation, and in Ignatian discernment he strives not to be troubled by outward circumstances. He said it better!
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Some yrs ago I was at the Frankfurt Book Fair and a publisher from Slovenia asked if I knew anything about @JamesMartinSJ. I said "I know everything about him." I proceeded to recount his whole life story and all his books. Afterward, he said, "Wow, you really love him!" Yes.
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I was asking @JamesMartinSJ how he deals with all the hateful opposition his ministry generates. He gave such a moving answer that I didn't get to ask my follow up question: Which of my books does he most wish he had written?
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Why I write about saints and holy lives: casting seeds of awareness that might awaken someone to a different path. For Merton it was reading about the Trappists in the Catholic Encyclopedia. For @JamesMartinSJ a documentary about Merton. Suddenly another way was possible.
Dear friends: In 1986, I came home from a miserable day at work at GE in Stamford, Ct., reheated some spaghetti and plopped down in front of the TV. I turned on PBS and stumbled across a documentary called "Merton: A Film Biography." I was 25... piped.video/watch?v=wwV7A8Fn…
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My interview with the author of this @OrbisBooks title, Sr Annabel Laity: piped.video/TMQn4v8xJk8
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FD of Bd Anne-Marie Javouhey (d 1851), founder Srs of St. Joseph of Cluny, established missions in French colonies, Guadalupe, Martinique, Senegal. She faced unrelenting harassment from bishops who tried to wrest control of her congregation.
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She established a colony for emancipated slaves in Guiana, so prosperous it aroused jealousy from white farmers. They pressed the local bishop to excommunicate her. Her sisters discovered this only when the priest at Mass passed by her open mouth refusing to give her communion.
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FD of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1680), first Native American saint. Her face showed the scars of smallpox, which darkened her vision and caused her to stumble in sunlight. Her name means "the one who walks groping her way." Like many women saints--who struggled to find her own path.
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Before #CatholicTwitter
In praise of Erasmus, who died July 12, 1536: "How can you say the Our Father if you plunge steel into the guts of your brother? Christ compared himself to a hen; Christians behave like hawks. Christ was a shepherd of sheep: Christians tear each other like wolves."
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Centenary of the remarkable Eunice Shriver, born July 10 1921. (My entry for @GiveUsThisDayLP).
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Fantastic film that records a turning point in African American culture. That was the same year James Cone published “Black Theology and Black Power.”
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Augustus Tolton, declared Venerable in 2019.
Augustus Tolton (d. July 9 1897) was the first black priest in America. Born into slavery in 1854, he escaped to freedom in Illinois with his mother, a devout Catholic, and 2 siblings. With the help of a priest he pursued seminary training in Rome and was ordained in 1886,
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The terrible situation in Haiti even before the recent assassination. @amywilentz has faithfully followed this story for over three decades.
Trying to sum up the bleak situation in #Haiti right now, after the assassination of rights activist Antoinette Duclaire at the end of June:
thenation.com/article/world/…
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