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Mitsuyoshi Toge: 'How Could I Ever Forget That Flash'
Mitsuyoshi Toge, born in Hiroshima in 1917, was a Catholic and a poet. He was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945, when he was 24 years old. Toge died at the age of thirty-six. His first hand experience of the bomb, his passion for peace, and his realistic insight into the event made him a leading poet in Hiroshima. This poem is from Hiroshima-Nagasaki: A Pictorial Record of the Atomic Destruction (1978).
How could I ever forget [...]
Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton
The contemplative life should liberate and purify the imagination which passively absorbs all kinds of things without our realizing it; liberate and purify it from the influence of so much violence done by the bombardment of social images.... The training of the imagination implies a certain freedom and this freedom implies a certain capacity to choose and to find its own appropriate nourishment. Thus in the interior life there should be moments of relaxation, freedom, and "browsing." Perhaps [...]
Verse of the Day: Preserving Integrity
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- Psalms 25:21
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Verse of the Day: Patience
And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14
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Voice of the Day: Peter of Celle
What lies dead and deformed in the letter on the dead parchment comes to life when what is read is put into practice.
--Peter of Celle
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
Verse of the Day: Serving the Least Among Us
I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.
- Matthew 25:36
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Voice of the Day: Frederick Buechner
When Jesus commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves, it was not just for our neighbors' sakes that he commanded it, but for our own sakes as well. Not to help find some way to feed the children who are starving to death is to have some precious part of who we are starve to death with them. Not to give ourselves to the human beings we know who may be starving not for food but for what we have in our hearts to nourish them with this to be, ourselves, diminished and crippled as human [...]
Verse of the Day: Pursue Peace
Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
- Hebrews 12:14
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Verse of the Day: Justice and Christ
I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
- Galatians 2:21
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Verse of the Day: "Put Away Violence"
Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 45:9
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Verse of the Day: "Put Away Violence"
Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 45:9
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Ryan Rodrick Beiler: CT on 'Bush's Heresy'
For those who'll accuse me of Bush-bashing, the headline was Christianity Today's. Ted Olsen has an interesting round-up of conservative bloggers, mostly criticizing recent statements by Bush about his theology of foreign [...]
Ryan Rodrick Beiler: CT on 'Bush's Heresy'
For those who'll accuse me of Bush-bashing, the headline was Christianity Today's. Ted Olsen has an interesting round-up of conservative bloggers, mostly criticizing recent statements by Bush about his theology of foreign [...]
Jim Wallis: The Catholic Bishops Respond on Iraq
A few weeks ago, I wrote that a group of Catholic members of Congress sent a letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asking to meet [...]
Verse of the Day: Strength in Weakness
Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
- 2 Corinthians 12:10
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Voice of the Day: John Trithemius
We should pray without ceasing because we cannot complete anything without God's help.
--John Trithemius
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
Becky Garrison: A Palestinian Pastor Speaks
An interview with Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, general director, The International Center of Bethlehem; senior pastor, Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church; and president, Diyar Consortium.
Can you give us a snapshot of what daily life is like for people living in Bethlehem?
The [...]
Verse of the Day: Seeking the Lost
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.
- Ezekiel 34:16
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Voice of the Day: Dom Helder Camara
I understood that in view of my decision to give myself unreservedly to God and my neighbor, it would be absolutely necessary for me to devote space and time to prayer.
- Dom Helder Camara
Verse of the Day: Judgement and Equality
If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me; what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
- Job 31:13-15
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