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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
Author ‘Thomas Merton’, ‘Complete Francis of Assisi’, ‘Meister Eckhart's Book of...’, ‘Sit in the Sun’, etc. Partner@Monkfish Books. Editor@Living City mag. Lousy RC married to rabbi. Father of 4. Lover cats/dogs. Moving back to Vermont soon.
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Highly recommend this excellent @jonmsweeney.bsky.social interview—should be read by all religious celebrities / influencers too.

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It can be difficult to concentrate during pre-dawn reading.

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I interviewed Ronald Rolheiser on the subject of celebrities in the Church. Here it is. www.focolaremedia.com/magazine/con...

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Mexican restaurant art

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Contentment

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A new book on community, connections, and listening that I appreciated this week: www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews...

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If you happen to be near Milwaukee on May 10. #Franciscan #drama #saintfrancisofassisi

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76 years ago right now, this amazing autobiography was new in bookstores, outselling every other nonfiction title. To people disillusioned with the world, it sold 600,000 hardcover copies in the first 12 months. #thomasmerton

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Got my 13 year-old a debit card, to begin learning budgeting and spending, etc. We took it today to our local bookstore, @boswellbooks.bsky.social, where she made her first purchase. A family tradition. In 1985, at 18, the first purchase I made on my first credit card was a book at a bookstore.

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Someone proofread this, please.

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I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding. John O’Donohue, “Fluent”

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For all who need this today. (from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light')

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Thinking about you.

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One of my favorite books, but did you know it was supposed to be 24 stories? Oxford Universitiy Press rejected one as too racy.

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Love this …..

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This is Meister Eckhart in a single poem, from “Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart”

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This @cac-org.bsky.social podcast dropped today.

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Where would you rather pray? A or B?

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I'm the guest on Richard Rohr's podcast today. You may enjoy listening... cac.org/podcasts/fra...

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I remember those Cokesbury heydays. #bookselling

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First, excellent review by A.N. Wilson of Pontifex's new "autobiography" in @thetls.bsky.social. Second, sometimes you read of a stunning mistake such as this and think, thank God, as an editor, I didn't make it.

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I was at The University of Notre Dame last week for a special one-day gathering to discuss gun violence in the U.S. www.focolaremedia.com/magazine/con...

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The moment juggling began.

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Our best guess of what St. Francis of Assisi really looked like--is in this medieval fresco from Sacro Speco, Subiaco.

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Stopped at Whole Foods to get a few things, walking behind Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers, and his wife. That man’s knees are obviously shot!

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Arriving in the mail now, the March issue.

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“There are times when we wish we could use the word ‘pray’ without hesitation.” -Seamus Heaney, writing to a friend whose mother was suffering from ovarian cancer

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Hey friends, after 8 good years in Milwaukee, this summer we're moving back to the Green Mountain State. Just finished making those plans yesterday. See thumbtack for specific location (a new part of the state for us). #Vermont #newadventures

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Just got a call from a CNN producer who is putting together a list of people they may call on if Pope Francis dies. I said, “I’m very sad to get this call!”

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I had beets on my pizza this afternoon in Vermont.

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This photo, taken 13 years ago today, popped up on my Facebook feed this morning. That's my friend Jennifer Grant standing with us. So I decided to wear that same old sweater today. I'm really cheap.

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In Shia Islam, this is where Adam is believed to be buried, in Najaf, Iraq. (Jews and Sunnis have him in the West Bank, Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem).

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"In my music, I am trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I am changing all the time." Charles Mingus

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For the day that's in it. ‘When all the others were away at Mass' by Seamus Heaney

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I'm going to show you something. Could you tell me if you think it's any good?

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Shabbat shalom from Vermont

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Neither wife nor I said a word about valentine's day today. Just as it should be.

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If you lived in Denmark or Norway in the middle ages, and had no access to salt or sugar, and very little fresh fruit, what would’ve been the point of eating at all?

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My credo.

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Eckhart on true love ❤️ from Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart

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This is chapter 11 of my new memoir, 'My Life in 17 Books' “This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving.” -Mary Gordon www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...

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He who has not God within himself cannot feel his absence. -Simone Weil

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In Church. Early Van Gogh.

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We had an informative, hopeful conversation yesterday. It is now on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gf7...

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