. . . Continued from previous post.
Then the Creator formed the red earth creature*
out of the dust of the ground
and blew into the creature's nostrils the breath of life,
and the creature became a living being. ~ Gen. 2: 7
Let everything that Read more [...]
A Life-Line
As the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other.
~ William Sloane Coffin
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A Life-Line:
from ACT III (Graveyard Scene)
EMILY:
In a loud voice to the stage manager.
I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another.
She breaks down sobbing,
The lights dim on the left half of the Read more [...]
Goodpeople, Pax Christi USA, the National Catholic Peace Movement, has been generous enough to reprint on their website an article I wrote in response to the Iraq War. It has been slightly updated. It is titled: "The Missing Peace in the Read more [...]
"Come! Death. I trust you
as much as I have trusted life.
Now come and sweep me into
your mystery"
~ Sr. Jeanette Wasinger ~
A Catholic sister learns she has stage 4 lung cancer, inspires me with her faith-filled response to it, blesses me with Read more [...]
TODAY is the Feast of All Saints. The gospel reading on this Feast Day is fixed. Every year it is the same passage: Matthew 5: 1-12a -- The Beatitudes.
In 2008-2009, The Human & the Holy (H&H) community spent the better part of a year studying Read more [...]