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Thomas Berry, priest and “geologian,” helped to tell the “universe story.” He believed the ecological crisis of our time was also a spiritual crisis. Developing the consciousness necessary to meet this crisis was the “great work” of our age. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Helen Keller died June 1 1968. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP . “I know that life is given us so that may grow in love.”
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The June 2023 issue of @GiveUsThisDayLP. Some of my “Blessed Among Us” include Julia Greeley, G.M. Hopkins, Sigrid Undset, Martin Buber, the Soweto Martyrs, Thomas Berry and Helen Keller.
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Not in a particular article; her devotion to the saints ran throughout her writings. Here is a piece that addresses that. americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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A beautiful view of Sr Wendy in action.
So grateful to have discovered this short Sister Wendy Beckett clip from 2011 in which Sister Wendy discusses art in the presence of the artist!
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Courage, Holiness and the Story of Daniel Ellsberg - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox dailymeditationswithmatthewf…
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Remembering St Joan of Arc, martyr of conscience, who refused to renounce her angelic voices, whose mysticism was deployed in the cause of liberation, who was burned to death in part because she refused to dress like a woman, who was condemned as a heretic before named as a st.
Feast of St Joan of Arc (1431), canonized in 1920, who claims the distinction among saints of having previously been condemned by the church as a heretic and burned at the stake. Throughout her ordeal she adamantly refused to renounce the angelic “voices” that guided her mission
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Kissinger vs. 'The Most Dangerous Man in America' scheerpost.com/2023/05/28/ki… via @scheer_post
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“Every conversation with Jim was a feast. Every meal with Jim was a sacrament…I think of his love of music, movies, poetry, great literature, nature, art, his capacity to delight in children, good food, good beer, good jokes, good company, and goodness itself.”
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