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Reader, writer, lifelong learner. Student of nature, art, music, theology, children. Former teacher. Looking for those I was following before I deleted my old acct) Re-Studying Merton in my aulde age. Member of Dorothy Day Guild
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"If we are not family, we cannot become Church." #TheaBowman #RebuildMyChurch

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“I am watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now...The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems." #JBPritzker #PrayForAmerica

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Anyone out there had an exorcism or deliverance from Fr Chad Rippenger? If so, please contact Jenn.

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I feel like it is very hard to tell what is real in this administration & what is not. So I will love what is real where I am and keep trying to be a person of kindness, mercy, & compassion.

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They are killing off pro-life programs that save the lives of babies & small children. Those who voted for the need to tell them that this is not ok.

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This is heartbreaking and cruel. And certainly not pro-life!

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So exciting to seeing them #1 again!

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I was at the park & saw a friend.We both like to watch the eagles there. It was 23 degrees & he was freezing (but excited)that Gigi, the young female (named by locals school kids)flew right towards him.He changed it to slow mo so that we could get the feeling. Happy Valentines❤️ youtu.be/EwMa56o8l6w

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Tuesday is the 20th anniversary of the martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang on Feb 12, 2005, killed because of her defense of the Amazon and its poor inhabitants. A video based on my reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5J...

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I will never become like them in order to fight them. I will not lose myself because then they will win. I will focus on mercy to those in need and not on their cruelties and hatred.

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Perhaps it’s a blessing for the #GoIrish that the national championship game will be played on Jan. 20. It’s the feast day of Blessed Basil Moreau, the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross. (The religious order that founded and still runs Notre Dame) #CFBPlayoff

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"Evangelicalism is not a simply religious group... Rather, it is a nationalistic political movement whose purpose is to support the hegemony of white Christian men over & against the flourishing of others." - @antheabutler.bsky.social

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Great day to watch "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President" RIP 🙏

submitted 56 days ago • 235 comments

Blessed Epiphany

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Enter the year that you turned 10 into the GIF Bar to see what was popular back then.

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I am confused about how to see those who I want to follow. I have tried liking & commenting on posts, and searching/clicking on them multiple times a day. If I don’t actively search their posts, I never see them.

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A wonderful reflection on Christmas by Father Martin

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Have you ever heard eagle song? A friend posted this on his YouTube channel today. Their sounds are so precious to me. youtu.be/YHXKmOzyxEw

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I cannot, for the life of me, understand how we went from living this kind of Catholicism to the division and bickering of today.

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Since God becomes incarnate in the family, the family should be an epiphany revealing that God is alive in the world —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979. Read/listen https://buff.ly/3FFuJLe

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I believe this deeply. Posted something like it on Facebook and got a lot of pushback on it. It really surprised me.

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Absolutely.

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In a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators, William Webster, the only person ever to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither Patel nor Gabbard meets the demands of top intelligence jobs. At 100 and still at the top of his game, Webster deserves to be heeded. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 63 days ago • 339 comments

And there are many shelters where those with children cannot stay

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As a child, this story broke a myth for me, when I realized that people did, in fact, deliberately hurt and kill innocent children. Spent my life working for child safety.

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“Nobody said anything on the campaign trail about attacking legal immigrants.” Lady, they were trying to incite pogroms against legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio.

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I cannot even count the times that I have held the hands of catholic parents dealing with these horrors & not being able to handle that they will have something that is called & counted as an abortion. So many experiences led to the woman who I am today—quite different from the young woman of 1972.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

The holiest woman that I ever knew used to say, “Prayer doesn’t change God. Prayer changes us.” Thus, this became the bare root of my spirituality. It has seen me through loss, pain, fear, grief, & that terrible aloneness that comes from being with those who are not my tribe & nothing like me. 🌻💛

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I believe that this will happen. I wonder if they will still invoke Sotos postmortem?

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