The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Voice of the Day: Naim Ateek

by Administrator 08-21-2007

The Church should proclaim its concept of God, as it has come to know God through Christ, to all people in society, including Muslims and Jews. This should be done unashamedly and uncompromisingly. The Church should insist on what God is really like - not in a spirit of superiority or condescension, but in humility and love. The Church must be conscious of its own failure in not living up to the responsibility of the knowledge of God that it has been given. It has not attained perfection, but [...]

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Verse of the Day: Woe!

by Administrator 08-21-2007

But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.

- Luke 6:24-26

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Verse of the Day: Better Poor but Wise

by Administrator 08-20-2007

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.

- Ecclesiastes 4:13-13

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Verse of the Day: Peace and Unity

by Administrator 08-17-2007

For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.

- Ephesians 2:14

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Voice of the Day: Saint Basil

by Administrator 08-17-2007

If you live alone, whose feet will you wash?

- Saint Basil
Quoted in How Shall We Live by Joan Chittister, OSB.

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Verse of the Day: "Lover of Justice"

by Administrator 08-16-2007

Let them praise your great and awesome name. Holy is he! Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

- Psalms 99:3-4

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Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton

by Administrator 08-14-2007

Better just to smell a flower in the garden...than to have an unauthentic experience of a much higher value. Better to honestly enjoy the sunshine or some light reading than to claim to be in contact with something that one is not in contact with at all.

- Thomas Merton
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss

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Verse of the Day: Justice

by Administrator 08-14-2007

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

- Deuteronomy 16:19

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Verse of the Day: Visions of the Kingdom

by Administrator 08-10-2007

When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and marauders have vanished from the land, then a throne shall be established in steadfast love in the tent of David, and on it shall sit in faithfulness a ruler who seeks justice and is swift to do what is right.

- Isaiah 16:4-5

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Voice of the Day: Bede Bede

by Administrator 08-10-2007

We have a consoler, our Lord Jesus Christ. Although we cannot see him with bodily eyes, we keep in written form in the Gospels the things he did and taught while he was bodily among us. If we take care to hear, read, and confer with each other about these things, which need to be preserved in our hearts and bodies, we will certainly conquer the obstacles of this age as surely as if the Lord were always standing by us and consoling us.

- Bede Bede
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh [...]

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