“Meeting Bone Man” For the First Time

January 3, 2012

My friend Joseph Ross’ poetry collection, Meeting Bone Man, is now available for pre-order from the Main Street Rag Publishing web site. Please buy this book.
A launch reading for Meeting Bone Man will take place on April 15, 2012, at 5:00pm at Busboys & Poets, 14th & V Streets NW, Washington, D.C. He will be reading with poet [...]

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Plastic Flip Flops: The Nonviolent Weapons of the Poor?

January 3, 2012

Protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia, bring plastic flip flops to the police station in a satirical action criticizing the beating and arrest of a boy for allegedly stealing a pair of cheap sandals from a Mobile Brigade officer.
According to the Associated Press: Indonesians have found a new symbol for their growing frustration at uneven justice in [...]

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Thomas Merton: ‘Make All Beauty Holy’

December 26, 2011

“The eyes of the saint make all beauty holy and the hands of the saint consecrate everything they touch to the glory of God, and the saint is never offended by anything and is scandalized at no [person's] sin because [s]he does not know  sin. [S]He knows nothing but the love and the mercy of [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2011

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the [...]

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Christmas Eve: ‘O Holy Night’

December 24, 2011

“Truly He taught us to love one another; His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother And in His name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, Let all within us praise His holy name.”—Placide Cappeau
“‘And you, [...]

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Fourth Friday in Advent 2011

December 23, 2011

“The story of Joseph’s bewilderment when he realized that his future wife was going to have a baby is well known, and it is well known too that Mary did not explain. Sometimes there is little to be gained by trying to explain, especially when misunderstandings arise from Christ conceived in us. At that time, [...]

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Fourth Thursday in Advent 2011

December 22, 2011

“‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.’”—Matthew 1: 20b
For a short while after 9/11, people living in the terrorist “bull’s eye” of Washington, D.C. were encouraged to create a sealed [...]

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Fourth Wednesday in Advent 2011

December 21, 2011

“Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of Divine Love growing in silence. It is the season of humility, silence, and growth. For nine months Christ grew in his mother’s body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.”–Caryll Houselander, [...]

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Remembering ‘The Barefoot Diva’ Cesaria Evora

December 20, 2011

“Cesaria Evora  was born on the 27th August 1941 in Mindelo, Cape Verde. Her bright voice and physical charms were soon noticed, but her hope of a singing career remained unsatisfied. A Cape Verdean women’s group and the singer Bana both took her to Lisbon to cut a few tracks, but the recordings failed to [...]

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Fourth Tuesday in Advent 2011

December 20, 2011

“That virginal quality, which for want of a better term, I call emptiness is the beginning of contemplation. … It is emptiness like the hollow in the cup, shaped to receive water or wine.”—Caryll Houselander, woodcarver and mystic
“Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come! O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in [...]

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