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Unknowing is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge. Dionysius

"Donald J. Trump, in the sweep of presidential history, is incomparably corrupt and stands without peer in that office as an agent of deliberate, ongoing cruelty."

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

"Christian nation"

"You can't dance and stay uptight." King Harvest

The Cast of one of my favourite Movies posing for the press during production of LOCAL HERO (1983)

(Director) Bill Forsyth and Burt Lancaster on location shooting the glorious LOCAL HERO (1983)

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1930: A white mob of thousands abducts, brutally beats and lynch two young African American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. This horrific event of racial terror became the catalyst for a multigenerational saga of activism, healing and artistic controversy. /1

So true and I never noticed this, but Scranton is crawling with 'em and Dwight would be amazing at a baptism.

In this new video, Carmen Acevedo Butcher reflects on how singing and the practice of Lectio Divina have carried her through trauma. Drawing on voices from Hildegard of Bingen to Thomas Merton and Richard Rohr, Carmen invites us into healing.

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good is named Jonathan Ross, and he should be indicted. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

JD skipped the part where the nuns and priests remind you constantly that Jesus humbled himself to love among us and Jesus is present in us all and especially in the poorest and most wretched

13 March 1943 | Germans began a 2-day liquidation of the ghetto in Krakow. Hundreds of Jews were killed in the streets. Some 8 thousand people who were able to work, were transferred to the forced labor camp for Jews in Plaszow. The remaining people were deported to #Auschwitz.

NEW: Pete Hegseth's pastor and mentor says the United States should ban public Masses, Marian processions, and Corpus Christi devotions. Hegseth invited the anti-Catholic preacher to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon on February 14.

Phoenix. I love a nice saguaro.

Seen in North Phoenix. A group of young moms strolling together, formed a circle and are here doing some work with light weights. Whole new meaning to mall walking .

I love good lawyering. This is fantastic lawyering .

Do you think the way to sanctity is to lock yourself up with your prayers and your books and the meditations that please and interest your mind, to protect yourself with many walls, against people you consider stupid? Thomas Merton

#ResistanceRoots “People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. ... No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.” — Dorothy Day

Lovely poem about noticing beauty.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is the heart of Eckhart. From 📚 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart'

Sadness

The granddaughter sharing her lip gloss with me.

Stand fast a little -- even at the risk of being heroes. A Man for All Seasons

"Do not be afraid of holiness." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #LoveEachOther

Yes, complaints of retaliatory searches and intrusive body searches for the thirty years I've been a lawyer in New Mexico m

T-Bone Walker, the pride of Linden, Texas, is universally recognized as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here he is with a whose who: Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, Clark Terry etc ... Holy cow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK...

"We must state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. We must never abandon them (48)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium

Whoever prays for the coming of the kingdom of God within himself is praying rightly, praying for the kingdom to dawn in him, bear fruit and reach perfection. … Then we will be a spiritual garden of Eden for God to walk in. ~ Origen (Office of Readings) #ChristTheKing

In the Sandia foothills.

Comprehensive thread on the impact of Dorothy Day. Her autobiography -- "The Long Loneliness" -- sits on my nightstand.

I love this picture of a pomegranate from our garden. Someone has opened it up and eaten some seeds. It's dying in the midst of giving life.

I had a chance to listen to Richard Rohr talk about Franciscan spirituality at Holy Family parish recently

New mural from Albuquerque based artist Jodie Herrera -- "Suenos Sin Injusticia"

Greg Boyle at CAC event shared a favorite word of Ignatius (acatamiento) -- translates to affectionate awe. We should look at the poor and dispossessed and the migrant as God does. "Let's try to look at the poor with awe at what they are carrying rather than with judgment of how they carry it."

Heard today at ReVision (Center for Action and Contemplation) "Silence is God's first language, everything else is a poor translation." Thomas Keating

Belonging is discovering who you really are in the presence of others who love you.

"I pray and counsel you...to live always a most holy and simple life. Be careful to avoid anyone who would teach or guide you in any other way." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

Graham Greene: “The greatest saints have been men with more than a normal capacity for evil, and the most vicious men have sometimes narrowly evaded sanctity.”

“It is an eternal obligation towards the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has the chance of coming to his assistance.” — Simone Weil