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Seeing The Light

The Feast of the Epiphany, that concludes the Christmas season, is above all a celebration of Light. Let us remember that light and keep it in our hearts as we face the gathering darkness of this year.

Links

Reflections On The Readings For The Feast Of The Epiphany Of Our Lord
Bishop Bambera’s Reflection for the Epiphany of the Lord « THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON

🌟 💖✨💜 🌟Happy Epiphany Birthday, Cat !! 🌟 💜✨💖 🌟

 

🌻💝🌻Happy Birthday, Renee!! 🌻💝🌻

Two Vermont Bays on New Year's Day 2017

Mallet's Bay

Shelburne Bay

Ice Falls at Shelburne Bay, Vermont

New Year's Resolutions

Visit Pax Christi USA and take the Vow of Nonviolence.

Visit Catholic Climate Covenant and take the St. Francis Pledge to pray, act, and advocate to solve climate change.

While Pax Christi and Catholic Climate Covenant are Catholic movements, the Vow of Nonviolence and the St. Francis Pledge are, it seems to me, consonant with the Progressive project. Also, in the coming year, we're going to need all the peace and nonviolence we can get!

Some people lay down to make snow angels. Mah*Sweetie stands up...

Mah*Sweetie made this angel on Christmas Eve Day and crowned her with balsam and berry on Christmas Day itself.  The bird was snagged from a decoration on our porch.  Then he scattered bread and seed around the base. ♥

A New Year of Peace and Nonviolence

In his address for 2017's World Day of Peace, Pope Francis calls nonviolence "a style of politics for peace." He describes nonviolence beginning in the heart of the individual and spreading from there through the family and community to the world. Yet the Holy Father emphasizes that the culture of nonviolence and love is the furthest thing from mamby pamby passivity and retreat from the world. On the contrary, he calls for active engagement on all levels. Only so can we resist evil and achieve the project of "peace founded upon truth, justice, freedom and love”."
As he points out, "An ethics of fraternity and peaceful coexistence between individuals and among peoples cannot be based on the logic of fear, violence and closed-mindedness, but on responsibility, respect and sincere dialogue." These fundamentals, that is responsibility, respect and sincere dialog, don't just happen; they must be worked at, developed and actively nurtured. Thus, nonviolence as a style of politics, as a lifestyle, is vigorous, active, a work in progress.
Let us commit ourselves this year to nurture and spread nonviolence in our own hearts and throughout those parts of the wider world that we touch. Through love and nonviolence, as the Holy Father reminds us, all things are possible.

“All of us want peace. Many people build it day by day through small gestures and acts; many of them are suffering, yet patiently persevere in their efforts to be peacemakers”. In 2017, may we dedicate ourselves prayerfully and actively to banishing violence from our hearts, words and deeds, and to becoming nonviolent people and to building nonviolent communities that care for our common home. “Nothing is impossible if we turn to God in prayer. Everyone can be an artisan of peace”.

Love, Rise, Resist!

Link

Nonviolence: a style of politics for peace - Message for the 50th World Day of Peace