The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Voice of the Day: Rene Padilla

by Administrator 06-28-2007

The church has only two alternatives in its confrontation with the world: either it adapts itself to the world and betrays the gospel, or it responds to the gospel and enters into conflict with the world.

- Rene Padilla

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Voice of the Day: Elsa Tamez

by Administrator 06-26-2007

The message of the good news is of the liberation of human beings from everything and everyone that keeps them enslaved.

- Elsa Tamez

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Verse of the Day: Oppression

by Administrator 06-26-2007

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

- Proverbs 22:16-16

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Voice of the Day: Ludovico Barbo

by Administrator 06-25-2007

Without mental prayer, it would be virtually impossible for frail humanity to bear the fierce struggles of religious life. You can inebriate with sweetness your dryness of heart, making use of the water of prayer drawn from the fountains of the Savior. As a tree experiencing drought sheds its unripened fruit and leaves, so the soul that is deprived of the dew of prayer brings forth incomplete works infected with distaste.

- Ludovico Barbo

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Verse of the Day: Means to an End

by Administrator 06-25-2007

The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.

- Isaiah 32:7-8

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Verse of the Day: Justice and Righteousness

by Administrator 06-22-2007

Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king's son. May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness. May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.


- Psalms 72:1-4


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Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa

by Administrator 06-21-2007

For not only do people need food, but they need also the touch of a hand, the sound of a voice. For food lasts but a day, but love is for always.

- Mother Teresa

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Verse of the Day: Caring for the Forgotten

by Administrator 06-21-2007

When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings.

- Deuteronomy 24:19-19

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Verse of the Day: Generosity from Poverty

by Administrator 06-20-2007

[Jesus] sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live [...]

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Voice of the Day: David Lim

by Administrator 06-20-2007

The measure of a society's progress is not whether it can give more to those who have more, but whether it can provide enough to those who have less.

--David Lim

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