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Voice of the Day: Raïsa Maritain
"It is an error to isolate oneself.... If God does not call one to solitude, one must live with God in the multitude, make [God] known there and make [God] loved." - Raïsa Maritain
Afternoon News Bytes: March 5, 2012
Poverty: Who Is Talking About It?; Pro-Life Argument Deserves Hearing In Mercury Ruling (OPINION); Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God The Same; Who's Really To Blame For Apple's Chinese Labor Problems?; Timothy Dolan To Rush Limbaugh: 'Do It Civilly'; Foreign Policy: The Wild Card In 2012 Campaign; Beyond The Free Market; The Pastor And The President: A Tale Of Faith.
Verse of the Day: Washing and Restoration
"But his servants approached and said to him, ‘Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, “Wash, and be clean”?’ So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean." - 2 Kings 5:13-14
Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister
"Dependence on God may be what is lacking in a society where consumerism and accumulation have become the root diseases of a world in which everything is not enough and nothing satisfies." - Joan Chittister from The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
Prayer of the Day: Sea of Love
O God, you are the unsearchable abyss of peace, the ineffable sea of love, and the fountain of blessings. Water us with plenteous streams from the riches of your grace; and from the most sweet springs of your kindness, make us children of quietness and heirs of peace.
From the Syrian Liturgy of St Clement of Alexandria
Afternoon News Bytes: March 2, 2012
'We Wish Like Hell We Had Never Bought': Voices From The Housing Crisis; One Nation Under Gods; Mass Appeal To Governors: Don't Privatize Prisons; “Green On Blue”; Obama To Iran And Israel: 'As President Of The United States, I Don't Bluff'; For America's Least Fortunate, The Grip Of Poverty Spans Generations; Inequality, Poverty, And Why We're Definitely Not Broke (OPINION); Jacksonville Lawmaker Says No 'Extreme Poverty' In N.C.
Voice of the Day: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
"For me it is essential to have the inward peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal lives and in the history of our times, about the power of love." - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Prayer of the Day: Social Workers
God, we pray today for all the social workers in the United States and around the world. Give them bountiful strength and wisdom in their work, as many of the people they serve are broken and weary. For them, we pray for healing and restoration. Amen.
Verse of the Day: Household of God
"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God." - Ephesians 2:19-22
Verse of the Day: David Rejoices in God's Deliverence
"David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: 'The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.'" - 2 Samuel 22:1-3
Voice of the Day: Henry Bugbee
“In abandoning the world we are lost; we are lost again and again. We may speak poignantly of the experience of being lost; but we cannot be clear about ourselves and our situation in so far as our thinking is dominated by that experience. Disillusionment with the world knows nothing of the sacrament of co-existence. It can find no place for the sacramental act. It can conjure out of itself no philosophy of action, for its ultimate implication is inaction.” - Henry Bugbee from The Inward Morning
Prayer of the Day: Perseverance
Afternoon News Bytes: Feb. 29, 2012
GDP Revised Up To 3 Percent In Fourth-Quarter; Why Foreign Assistance Is Still Important; Syrian Army Assaults Rebel Districts; Public Views Of The Divide Between Religion And Politics; What Did Congress Do To Combat Poverty In 2011? Virtually Nothing (OPINION); Environmental Justice A Form Of Social Justice (OPINION); Occupy LSX May Be Gone, But The Movement Won't Be Forgotten; World’s Extreme Poverty Cut In Half Since 1990; Poverty Resolutions, Microloan Nonprofit, Shows How Far $1 Can Go To Provide Jobs For Poor; Alabama Lawmakers Calls For Immigration Law Repeal.
Prayer of the Day: Horn of Africa
God, we pray for those still affected by the famine in the horn of Africa. We pray that the hunger, the thirst, and the suffering would cease. God, in your mercy, hear our prayers. Amen.
Verse of the Day: Peter Cures the Sick and Unclean
"Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured." - Acts 5:14-16
Voice of the Day: Charlotte Brontë
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.” - Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre
Breakaway Anglican Bishop, Wife Found Murdered in Brazil
A conservative Brazilian bishop who broke away from his church over the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire was found murdered with his wife in the northeastern town of Olinda, according to the diocese.
Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti and his wife Miriam were found dead on Sunday (Feb. 26). Their adopted son, Eduardo, is a suspect in the stabbing deaths, church officials said.
Conservative Anglican media sites reported that Cavalcanti was returning from a parish visit.
Cavalcanti launched the breakaway Anglican Church -- Diocese of Recife after Bishop V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Afternoon News Bytes: Feb. 27, 2012
Rick Warren Builds Bridge To Muslims; Gingrich Tells Evangelicals: 'We Need To Stand Up For Ourselves'; Santorum Makes Case For Religion In Public Sphere; The Keystone Fight Is Uniting Tea Partiers With Environmentalists; Syria Hit List Targets Thousands; Mike Huckabee Laments 'Toxic Atmosphere' In 2012 Republican Primary; 231 Nominations For 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, Including Manning, Tymoshenko; Are Brick-and-Mortar Economists Leading Us Astray?; Suicide Bomb Targets Church In Jos
Verse of the Day: Return of the Unclean Spirit
"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting-place, but not finding any, it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'" - Luke 11:24
Voice of the Day: Sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
"A brother asked Poemen, 'What am I to do, for I become weak just by sitting in my cell?' He said, 'Despise no one, condemn no one, revile no one: and God will give you quiteness, and you will sit at peace in your cell.'" - Sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers