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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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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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Thank you! 13 years now—so grateful to @GiveUsThisDayLP for the grace of this ministry.
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My latest for @BCAnglican
"Beauty is food for the soul. Beauty is the open door to gratitude and wonder. Beauty is the gateway to the recognition that God is not only coming to us from a yet unborn future but is already here...in this present moment."
faithtides.ca/beauty-the-for…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
We're looking forward to our "Off the Page" with editors Kathleen Deignan & Libby Osgood of "Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours", on June 7th at 10am PT/ 1 pm ET. Hosted by S&P’s Contributing Editor, Jon M. Sweeney, live on S&P's Facebook (@SpiritualityandPractice).
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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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@RobertEllsberg Did Dorothy Day write anywhere about how she prayed to saints, or anything about her personal devotion to saints that you can think of? I am a new Catholic and cultivating a relationship with someone in this way is new to me. Thanks!
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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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Mary Lou Williams at Les Mouches, NYC, 1978 Cabaret Show, Carline Ray:
piped.video/watch?v=IcLwQn9P…
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In reviewing "MORNING GLORY: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams" by Linda Dahl, Gene Santoro does note the MLW-DD connection:
nytimes.com/2000/02/20/books…
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Mary Lou Williams became a friend of Dorothy Day and often performed at the Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli. does anyone know if that has any connection to her piece "Miss D.D." ?
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In reviewing "MORNING GLORY: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams" by Linda Dahl, Gene Santoro does note the MLW-DD connection:
nytimes.com/2000/02/20/books…
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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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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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We found this film a while ago...
criterion.com/films/228-the-…
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Courage, Holiness and the Story of Daniel Ellsberg - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox dailymeditationswithmatthewf…
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