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Biden declares March 31 as César Chávez Day, honoring the late Catholic labor activist.
“I was proud to place a bust of César Chávez in the Oval Office, so that no one who enters that historic room may forget the powerful truths his farm worker hands imparted.”
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Mother Maria Skobtsova died in the gas chamber of Ravensbruck concentration camp on the eve of Easter, March 31,1945, days before the liberation. She was arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering Jews in Paris. It was the culmination of a remarkable journey that began in Russia.
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Divorced twice, a poet, political activist, she fled Russia in 1923 with her two children and settled in Paris. After her daughter's death she underwent a deep conversion. Determined to live "a more authentic and purified life" she turned to social work among Russian refugees.
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Encouraged to become an Orthodox nun, she wished to develop a new type of monasticism, engaged in the world, marked by "the complete absence of even the subtlest barrier which might separate the heart from the world and its wounds." In her home she operated a soup kitchen.
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In becoming a nun she said, "I think service to the world is simply the giving of one's own sol in order to save others." During the Nazi occupation she helped rescue Jews and other political refugees, until her arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. Her writings @OrbisBooks
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Mother Maria Skobtsova has been canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. "I am your message, Lord. Throw me like a blazing torch into the night, that all may see and understand what it means to be a disciple.
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Gordon Liddy has died. Obituaries describe him as “the mastermind behind the Watergate burglary.” Just saying.
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The same article includes one of my favorite lines fr9m Dorothy Day: “The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love.”
This is a challenging Easter message from #dorothyday (1964) Do we have the faith to see Christ in the poor? Do we have the faith to go to them (like the three women) or do we run away like Peter and pretend we don’t know him? catholicworker.org/dorothyda…
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Servant of God Thea Bowman died on March 30, 1990. Here is a video based on my reflection for
@GiveUsThisDayLP Blessed Among Us: Sister Thea Bowman piped.video/rDmgMElJEAY via @YouTube
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Facing Bookalypse: a Catherine Keller Book Giveaway trippfuller.com/giveaways/fa… via @HomebrewedXnty
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After the murder of Fr. Rutilio Grande, Oscar Romero considered suspending all Masses in the archdiocese in favor of a single Mass in the Cathedral. He worried whether God would be more glorified by many masses, but remembered that the glory of God is the living human being.
Cardinal Sarah writes that "the gift of grace is reduced" in a Mass concelebrated by a number of priests
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In a 7/5/71 oval office conversation Nixon muses on the fact that "Jews are born spies." eg., Ellsberg, the Rosenbergs, "there's a strange malignancy that seems to creep among them." He notes a curious fact: "There are damn few Negro spies."Why? Listen: 👇bit.ly/31xjD90
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Registration is live for the book launch of my *Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances* drew.edu/events-calendar/eve…
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Martin Luther King Jr marching in Memphis on the week he died. This was the equivalent to his Palm Sunday.
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@RobertEllsberg I am so honored to know you and have worked with you.
Your father @DanielEllsberg is amazing!
#keepinghopealive
As my father approaches 90: “Hope is not a feeling or an expectation,” he explains. “It’s a form of acting. I choose to act as if we had a choice to change this behavior, and to change the world for the better and avoid catastrophe.” thenation.com/article/world/…
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As my father approaches 90: “Hope is not a feeling or an expectation,” he explains. “It’s a form of acting. I choose to act as if we had a choice to change this behavior, and to change the world for the better and avoid catastrophe.” thenation.com/article/world/…
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