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Maryada Vallet: Dispatch from the Desert: Crown of Thorns
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jmcgee
It is late afternoon in southern Arizona and the branches of the ocotillo cacti shine like golden rods pointing to the heavens. The monsoon rains of summer have turned desolation into life, and all that was brown is green in the Sonoran Desert. The ocotillo glow in this ‘golden hour’ before sunset because the green…
Verse of the Day: ‘Dissentions and offenses’
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jmcgee
I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep an eye on those who cause dissensions and offenses, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them. For such people do not serve the Lord Christ, but their own appetities, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded. –…
Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa
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jmcgee
It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. – Mother Teresa + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
Voice of the Day: Thomas Cahill on Prophets
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jmcgee
Prophets are, by their nature, inconvenient party-poopers. It is a mistaken notion that prophets can see the future. Rather, they tell us what is true right now. – Thomas Cahill, in Hey You, Listen Up! Sojourners, March-April 2003 + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
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