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Category Archives: Solidarity

What You Are in Love with Affects Everything ~ A Life-Line

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Let me be clear about this final point, which hinges on faith’s grasp of a gratuitous, merciful, healing presence even amid the storms of life. For Christians of every color, solidarity with the stranger and the option of the Read more [...]

Posted in Solidarity | Tagged Christians, Christopher Pramuk, Cross, God, Love, Mercy, Our Task, Pedro Arrupe, Solidarity, Stranger, The Poor | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

O God, full of compassion, Who dwells on high, grant true rest upon the wings of the Shechinah↑, in the exalted spheres of the holy and pure, who shine as the resplendence of the firmament, to the souls of the eleven slain members of Tree of Life Read more [...]

Posted in Solidarity | Tagged Abraham Heschel, Being Human, Christians, Compassion, Inter-faith, Jews, Kinship, Reconciliation, Solidarity | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish, of the followers of Christ as well. ~ Gaudium et Spes, Vatican Read more [...]

Posted in Solidarity | Tagged Anguish, Christ-life, Grief, Hope, Joy | Leave a reply

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