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The 1st issue of the Catholic Worker was distributed at a rally in Union Square on May 1 1933, but perhaps the true origin of the CW was on Dec 8 1932, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, when Dorothy Day offered a prayer with “tears and anguish” to find her vocation.
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“Upholding a fictitious, laudatory narrative would make a false idol out of Xavier, who ordered the destruction of all idols in Goa. We too must destroy the false idols that we and our Church cling to.” Thanks @matt_k007 for this nuanced reflection.
Many thanks to @The_Tablet for publishing my reflection on Francis Xavier, whose memorial the Church celebrates today. We all are called to grow in conversion, and even the saints reveal they too missed the mark while on Earth. thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/1933…
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The murder of of four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador in December 1980 was one of the defining events of its time: an act of brutality, and at the time a singular witness to the enduring power of the Cross. Take a look at "Here I Am, Lord" #anniversary #Salvador #deaths
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Something I learned today: Dorothy Day considered Gandhi something like a Catholic saint.
At his death, she wrote: "In him we have a new intercessor with Christ; a modern Francis, a pacifist martyr."
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New from @OrbisBooks
New book on World Christianity just released!
The essays in this volume explore significant issues and questions confronting one of the most exciting fields of study today.
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This is getting missed in all the indigence from Meadows and his folks. This was a negative * antibody * test. It just means Trump wasn’t producing antibodies at that point. Has no bearing on whether he was infected, which a different test would have show.
3) From Meadows’ description and the Guardian’s summary, it sounds like Trump was tested with an unnamed rapid test — and after his positive result, that same sample was rerun, somewhat later, through another antigen test.
This is not the way to do accurate coronavirus testing.
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41 years ago on Dec 2 1980, four US churchwomen were brutally killed by Salvadoran military, labeled subversives because of their service to the poor. How long until they are beatified? My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Bd. Charles de Foucauld d. Dec 1 1916: “The whole of our existence, the whole of our lives should cry the Gospel from the rooftops…not by our words but by our lives.” bit.ly/3og2OM0
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Looking forward to @kayaoakes new book. Reminded of this line in Dorothy’s diaries: “I have a hard enough job to curb the anger in my own heart which I sometimes even wake up with, go to sleep with—a giant to strive with, an ugliness, a sorrow to me—a mighty struggle to love.”
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Thanks to @jamestkeane for a wonderful overview of Dorothy Day and her cause for canonization, which incidentally serves as a guide to my writings!
Dorothy Day: “We are all called to be saints, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name.”
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Fritz Eichenberg d Nov 30 1990. Renowned for his illustrations of literary classics, he was also a loyal contributor to the Catholic Worker. I edited a collection of his CW art for @OrbisBooks
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“He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” (Mark 7:14-15) bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/7
Catholic Priest Fr. Ed Meeks of Towson, MD said in his sermon this past week that vaccine mandates are contrary to the teachings of Jesus: “No earthly king or president or public health official .. gets to dictate what we put into our body, into these temples of the Holy Spirit.”
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Introducing the new @OrbisBooks title by #HenriNouwen on #Community. -- Maryknoll Magazine maryknollmagazine.org/2021/0…
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Love discovering Saints like this. My reflections on Servant of God Wanda Blenska. @GiveUsThisDayLP blog.giveusthisday.org/2021/…
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Dorothy Day died November 29 1980. “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” Reflections from my younger self; piped.video/YviTrmrI0hM
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