The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Voice of the Day: Arturo Paoli

by Administrator 07-13-2007

The ones to trust are the ones who give not just their money, but their person, those who give their lives for their neighbor.

- Arturo Paoli

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Verse of the Day: Judgement Upon the Wicked and the Righteous

by Administrator 07-12-2007

Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

- Ecclesiastes 3:16-18

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Voice of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh

by Administrator 07-12-2007

To me, practicing mindfulness in the act of consuming is the basic act of social justice.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

Interview by Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Ghandi.
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Verse of the Day: Humility

by Administrator 07-11-2007

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, "Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, "Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the [...]

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Voice of the Day: Jean Mabillon

by Administrator 07-11-2007

The spirit in which Scriptures should be read: search first to know God and the mysteries of our religion, and to know oneself; and to understand the ways to travel to God, and how to make good use of creatures. In a word: seek in this reading only truth and justice and the practice of charity and other virtues. The particular qualities needed are purity of heart, humility, simplicity, control of curiosity, and enthusiasm.

- Jean Mabillon

Treatise on the Studies of Monks [...]

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Verse of the Day: Forgiveness

by Administrator 07-10-2007

Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.

- Numbers 14:19

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Voice of the Day: Responding with Loving Humility

by Administrator 07-10-2007

At some thoughts one stands perplexed, above all at the sight of human sin, and wonders whether to combat it by force or by humble love. Always decide 'I will combat it by humble love.' If you resolve on that once for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force: it is the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.

- Starets [Elder] Zosima from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Verse of the Day: Refuge for the Poor

by Administrator 07-09-2007

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord? There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the company of the righteous. You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.

- Psalms 14:4-6

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Voice of the Day: Segundo Galilea

by Administrator 07-09-2007

We have all known persons who have lost everything and have not lost the joy of living; persons who are imprisoned unjustly and do not lose their peace and tranquility; persons who live in misery and take in orphans; persons who have suffered injustices and seek to reestablish justice with no desire to revenge.

- Segundo Galilea

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Verse of the Day: Trust and Wealth

by Administrator 07-06-2007

If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence; if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much ... this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

- Job 31:24-28
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