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Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr.
09-24-2013
"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Prayer of the Day: May We Imitate Jesus Christ
09-24-2013
Lord, hear our prayer. For all who are excluded, lonely, and marginalized, may we imitate Jesus Christ and make it our special mission to reach out ot those on the fringes. Amen.
Verse of the Day: Mark 2:16-17
09-23-2013
When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does he eat with tax-collectors and sinners?’ When Jesus heard this, he said to them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’
- Mark 2:16-17
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Voice of the Day: Mary Oliver
09-23-2013
"I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, ... which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your own wild and precious life?"
- Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day"
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Prayer of the Day: Free Me to Love and Serve
09-23-2013
Lord, my thoughts turn in upon myself. Turn them upward to you and outward to your other children, that I may forget myself and lose all fear and anxiety, all self-seeking and self-consciousness, in worship of you and in love of others. O save me from myself to worship, love, and serve in perfect freedom. Amen.
- Prayer by George Appleton
Meet the Republicans Who Voted to Slash $40 Billion from the Food Stamps Program
09-20-2013
Politician swearing oath with fingers crossed, Minerva Studio / Shutterstock.com
Yesterday, before Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to push through a plan to slash nearly $40 billion from the food stamp program, Jim Wallis said we would keep an eye on which way of our elected officials voted.
"We will be watching who votes against feeding the hungry this week and will remember to bring that to public attention when they run for re-election. We will be doing our own faith count today. Stay tuned for the results."
Well here are the results. The plan passed narrowly, 217-210 — with all the yea votes coming from the Republican side. Fifteen Republicans joined with the Democrats against the plan.
So, who voted for that $40 billion cut to the food stamps program, which would kick an estimated 4 million hungry people out of the program next year? Here's your list. Is your Congress member on it?
Prayer of the Day: God of Mercies
09-19-2013
Look down, God of mercies, at those unhappy families suffering from war and slaughter, from hunger and illness and other severe troubles. Spare them, O Lord, for it is truly a time of mercy. Amen.
-- Saint Peter Canisius
Voice of the Day: Just as a Mother
09-19-2013
"Just as a mother would not love a child better for its being turned into a model of perfection... but does love it the more deeply every time it tries to be good, so do I hope and believe our great [God] does not wait for us to be good and wise to love us, but loves us, and loves to help us in the very thick of our struggle."
- Juliana Horatia Ewing
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Verse of the Day: Psalm 33:1-5
09-19-2013
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Prayer of the Day: God of Mercies
09-19-2013
Look down, God of mercies, at those unhappy families suffering from war and slaughter, from hunger and illness and other severe troubles. Spare them, O Lord, for it is truly a time of mercy. Amen.
-- Saint Peter Canisius
Voice of the Day: Joseph Chorpenning
09-19-2013
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Verse of the Day: Revelation 15:3-4
09-19-2013
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:
‘Great and amazing are your deeds, Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways, King of the nations!
Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come and worship before you,
for your judgements have been revealed.’
- Revelation 15:3-4
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Prayer of the Day: Source and goal of community
09-18-2013
Source and goal of community, whose will it is that all your people enjoy fullness of life: may we be builders of community, caring for your good earth here and world-wide and as partners with the poor, signs of your ever friendly love; that we may delight in diversity and choose solidarity for you are in community with us our God forever. Amen.
-Unknown
Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:29-31
09-18-2013
Do not plan harm against your neighbor
who lives trustingly beside you.
Do not quarrel with anyone without cause,
when no harm has been done to you.
Do not envy the violent
and do not choose any of their ways;
- Proverbs 3:29-31
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Voice of the Day: Pedro Arrupe
09-18-2013
Today our prime educational objective must be to form [people]-for-others; [people] who will live not for themselves but for God and [God's] Christ — for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; [people] who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; [people] completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for [people] is a farce.
- Pedro Arrupe
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Verse of the Day: 3 John 1:11
09-17-2013
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
- 3 John 1:11
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Voice of the Day: Patricia Hampl
09-17-2013
"We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing."
- Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
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Prayer of the Day: May Their Roads
09-17-2013
From wherever my children have built their shelters, may their roads come in safety.
May the forests and the brush stretch out their water-filled arms and shield their hearts.
May their roads come in safety, may their roads be fulfilled. Amen.
-- Zuni Prayer
Prayer of the Day: A Prayer for the Hardest of Times
09-16-2013
Lord God, take my hand. It's me, begging you to take my hand. Just for today. Lift me up into the light of your love, so that I may see the reflection of my face in yours.
Restore me to sanity. Fill me with your grace. Amen.
-- "A Prayer for the Hardest of Times"
Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton
09-16-2013
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image."
- Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
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