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| Rohingya walking from the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. Over 640,000 refugees sought shelter in Bangladesh this year. Tomas Munita for The New York Times |
"There, amid the gloom of a city that had no room or place for the stranger from afar, amid the darkness of a bustling city which seemed to want to build itself up by turning its back on others… it was precisely there that the revolutionary spark of God’s love was kindled" - Pope Francis, December 24, 2017
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" i brought back the Merry Christmas greeting
and all can happily display a Christmas manger
i have brought back Christmas - making america
great again i have also taken away the insurance
of 13 million people believe me this is the best Christmas ever " ___________________________________________
oh boy. This is really strange, huh?
DeleteI tend to think that we will survive this make america great again stuff, but it sure is disconcerting. Maybe it is waking us up?
yes yes
ReplyDeletewe now live in spoiled environment of over consumption
perhaps the america needs a good dose of culture shock
to correct its self --------
but don't you think that the world has always been that way - a spoiled environment of over consumption (for a few) and not enough for others?
DeleteA crisis, writes Hannah Arendt, “tears away façades and obliterates prejudices.”
ReplyDeletewell yes and no
ReplyDeletethe human condition is suffering
caused by mankind's immaturity
but there is the potential of the
human race to grow up -is this not salvation -
perhaps every human life is both sacrifice ,
and sacrament _____________________________