Beyond Pearls: Reform and Renewal Starts with Us

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Reform and Renewal Starts with Us - Crisis Magazine

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Reform and Renewal Starts with Us - Crisis Magazine

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KathyJuly 27, 2015 at 11:34 AM
What comments or opinions do you have? I know you agree...but, what's the most convicting point of the article for you? Mine was: "So you do what you can do—the work that is ready to your hand." Shovel ready work? Hmmm...sounds a little like an FDR plan! LOL

I liked his suggestions, but thought that Tony should have separated those things which must be taken on as a group of individuals -- reforming the schools/parishes, and those things that are specific to an individual and can be done in solitary. His point is excellent, but I'd like to hear what you thought about it. Selfish friend who hasn't seen you in a while request!
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"It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal." ~ Saint Pope John Paul, the Great

“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, War Within & Without: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944