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Richard Deats. Ambassador of Reconciliation. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/086571211…
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“There is some of us would rather die for our faith than take a bath for it.”— Flannery O’Connor on Lourdes. And yet she did grudgingly make the pilgrimage. #OurLadyOfLourdes
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Muriel Lester, peacemaker, d Feb 11 2023. My reflections jn @GiveUsThisDayLP “We should stop praying the Lord’s Prayer until we can see that we are tied to the same living tether not only with our fellow countrymen but with everybody on the planet.”
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One time someone told Dorothy Day to hold her temper. She said, “I hold more temper in one minute than you will in your entire life.”
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“There comes a time when you have to prove who you are,”
via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/da…
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"Our voices are powerful. All we have to do is use them!" Carole Feraci, the singer who confronted Nixon: "God bless the Berrigans and Daniel Ellsberg." piped.video/lXY4u1pyJuA via @YouTube
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Delighted to join the Maryknoll Srs in honoring @OrbisBooks author Diarmuid O’Murchu, Irish priest, multidisciplinary visionary, prolific author on implications of evolution for the universe and Christian faith.
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Martin Scorsese was acknowledging my complaint that my name does not appear in the index. In the moment that made it all worthwhile.
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Worth a thousand words.
Turkish photographer Uğur Gallenkuş portrays opposite lives by combining photos from different parts of the world — in order to highlight how people’s lives are so drastically different despite everyone living on the same planet …
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“Sister Wendy and me: an epistolary friendship.” Excerpts from my new book, “Dearest Sister Wendy… A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship,” @orbisbooks, @ChurchTimes churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2… from @churchtimes
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Mother Mary Lange, founder, Oblate Sisters of Providence, one of six African American candidates for canonization, d Feb 3 1882. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Alfred Delp, SJ was hanged as a traitor on Feb 2 1945 for his part in an anti-Nazi group. “The inner law of freedom sings that no death can kill us. Life is eternal.” My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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St Brigid (525) abbess of Kildare, a double monastery of men and women, is traditionally depicted with a bishop’s crosier based on the story that a bishop in her community ordained her as a fellow bishop. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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February issue of @GiveUsThisDayLP. My “Blessed Among Us” this month include Dr Paul Farmer, Mr Rogers, Sr Marie Augusta Neal, Mary Lange, martyr Alfred Delp SJ, Brother Lawrence, Michelangelo, St Brigid, and a dozen more.
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