My reflections @GiveUsThisDayLP on journalist Penny Lernoux, who died Oct 8/89. :You can look at a slum or peasant village...but it is only by entering into that world--by living in it--that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ." @OrbisBooks
Today is @RevJJackson's 80th birthday. Joined him and @Gracejisunkim to discuss his life as a "long distance runner" in the struggle for peace and justice, and his @orbisbooks title "Keeping Hope Alive: Speeches and Sermons of Rev Jesse L Jackson Sr." piped.video/watch?v=WssKx_15…
Carlo Carretto (d. Oct 4, 1988), drawn by the example of Charles de Foucauld, taught that it was possible to live a contemplative life in the midst of the world. The heart of the gospel is to make of ourselves an oasis of love in whatever desert we find ourselves. @OrbisBooks