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Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas, “Protector of the Indians” d. July 18, 1566. His story raises the question: Who are those in our world who “don’t count,” whose humanity does not measure up, whose aspirations and needs are not our concern? My reflections: americamagazine.org/issue/la…
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“There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”
17 July 1944 | Jane #Haining, a @churchscotland missionary in #Budapest perished in the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp. Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.” 1/2
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“The way to God lies through love of people. At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners.”
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This was 18 months ago, talking with @JamesMartinSJ about his biography. And yes, of course, Martin Scorsese comes to all my book launches (see him turning round from the front row to look back- at @RobertEllsberg, who was standing to ask a question). Me and Marty, we're tight.
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I was asking @JamesMartinSJ how he deals with all the hateful opposition his ministry generates. He gave such a moving answer that I didn't get to ask my follow up question: Which of my books does he most wish he had written?
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I was in attendance, and have wanted to submit a proposal for the People of God series on a Latino theologian and pastoral leader, but never heard back after a couple of emails, probably because of the pandemic
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I was asking @JamesMartinSJ how he deals with all the hateful opposition his ministry generates. He gave such a moving answer that I didn't get to ask my follow up question: Which of my books does he most wish he had written?
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Will you share with us his moving answer to your question? It might be of comfort for many people.
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I was asking @JamesMartinSJ how he deals with all the hateful opposition his ministry generates. He gave such a moving answer that I didn't get to ask my follow up question: Which of my books does he most wish he had written?
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Will you share with us his moving answer to your question? It might be of comfort for many people.
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He said it was a great liberation to realize he doesn’t need to have everyone like him. Not everyone liked Jesus or likes Pope Francis. But he does receive much affirmation, and in Ignatian discernment he strives not to be troubled by outward circumstances. He said it better!
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He said it was a great liberation to realize he doesn’t need to have everyone like him. Not everyone liked Jesus or likes Pope Francis. But he does receive much affirmation, and in Ignatian discernment he strives not to be troubled by outward circumstances. He said it better!
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Some yrs ago I was at the Frankfurt Book Fair and a publisher from Slovenia asked if I knew anything about @JamesMartinSJ. I said "I know everything about him." I proceeded to recount his whole life story and all his books. Afterward, he said, "Wow, you really love him!" Yes.
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Why I write about saints and holy lives: casting seeds of awareness that might awaken someone to a different path. For Merton it was reading about the Trappists in the Catholic Encyclopedia. For @JamesMartinSJ a documentary about Merton. Suddenly another way was possible.
Dear friends: In 1986, I came home from a miserable day at work at GE in Stamford, Ct., reheated some spaghetti and plopped down in front of the TV. I turned on PBS and stumbled across a documentary called "Merton: A Film Biography." I was 25... piped.video/watch?v=wwV7A8Fn…
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FD of Bd Anne-Marie Javouhey (d 1851), founder Srs of St. Joseph of Cluny, established missions in French colonies, Guadalupe, Martinique, Senegal. She faced unrelenting harassment from bishops who tried to wrest control of her congregation.
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She established a colony for emancipated slaves in Guiana, so prosperous it aroused jealousy from white farmers. They pressed the local bishop to excommunicate her. Her sisters discovered this only when the priest at Mass passed by her open mouth refusing to give her communion.
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Interesting new book on double belonging and Buddhist-Christian complementariness. spiritualityandpractice.com/…
#mindfulness
#doublebelonging
#Thay
#BuddhistChristian
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My interview with the author of this @OrbisBooks title, Sr Annabel Laity: piped.video/TMQn4v8xJk8
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When her nemesis later died, she urged her sisters to pray for him, as one of their "benefactors." "God made use of him to try us when as a rule we were hearing nothing around us but praise." She died July 15, 1851.
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FD of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1680), first Native American saint. Her face showed the scars of smallpox, which darkened her vision and caused her to stumble in sunlight. Her name means "the one who walks groping her way." Like many women saints--who struggled to find her own path.
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In praise of Erasmus, who died July 12, 1536: "How can you say the Our Father if you plunge steel into the guts of your brother? Christ compared himself to a hen; Christians behave like hawks. Christ was a shepherd of sheep: Christians tear each other like wolves."
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In praise of Erasmus, who died July 12, 1536: "How can you say the Our Father if you plunge steel into the guts of your brother? Christ compared himself to a hen; Christians behave like hawks. Christ was a shepherd of sheep: Christians tear each other like wolves."
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FD Of St Benedict, founder of western monasticism. For centuries Benedictine monasteries presented the challenge of an alternative world, governed by the spirit of Christ. At a time of extreme social hierarchy, they presented an ideal of equality. ...
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