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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 7h

Knowing this in advance, I'd wear Orange Shirt Day apparel to Mass.

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 14h

Sounds to me like the right order to do things in! 😄

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 16h

Los caminos de los santos cambian el contorno de la tierra.

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 1d

A reflection on the face—or flesh—of contemplation in Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation, 𝘋𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪 𝘛𝘦.

Encountering the Lord of History

Yesterday, on the memorial of St. John Henry Newman, Pope Leo’s apostolic exhortation to all Christians on love for the poor, Dilexi Te, was published online. I’d been eagerly waiting for this docu…

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Christophe Chaland @cchaland.bsky.social · 1d

"C’est à travers [mes voisins roms] que j’ai découvert cette capacité à se centrer sur l’essentiel: la vie, le moment présent, dans l’abandon confiant à la Providence. En cela, ils sont mes maîtres spirituels."
Petite sr Clémence, frat. des Petites Srs de Jésus, Rome
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« Dilexi te » : « Ensemble », témoignage de petite sœur Clémence (texte complet)

Photo : capture © vaticaninfo.com; sœur Clémence « Ensemble, avec eux, comme nous y invite le Saint Père, mettons-nous au travail pour faire advenir

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 1d

Little Sisters of Jesus (of Charles de Foucauld) report that LS Clemence from Tre Fontane, Italy, shared her experience at the Dilexi te press conference:

“Through Roma women I discovered the ability to focus on essential things in life and the present moment in trusting abandonment in Providence”

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 2d

A snake plant flowers if it gets good sun and water but is confined. I've found that this is a surprise to many—myself, some years ago, included.

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 2d

Libertatis Nuntius—no kidding!

Although it's interesting that what Leo quotes from it is the kind of thing its critics agreed with (and which Libertatis Conscientia went on to discuss at length).

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Nintendo DS Lewis @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 2d

What a thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 2d

I count in the English translation two or three uses of "choice/choose" (no. 7 and the ch. 2 title-subtitle) and "option" six times (just counting those that aren't quotations).

So, if so, neither is the reasoning explicit nor the translation exclusive?

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 2d

Barron's schtick (for example) is that anything about the poor or society is all a "moral derivative of the Gospel," so I've been going hard on JP2's "not simply charity, it's a page of Christology." Leo's "not mere kindness, but encountering the Lord of history" will make it a nice pair.

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 2d

It seems like no. 5 is a beautiful new rendition of NMI 49

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 2d

Dilexit Te no. 5 is a new NMI 49, and I’m loving it

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 3d

And in between the two, I was asked to lightly adapt one of my (not-online) writings about "God the Most Vulnerable" for a peer-reviewed journal. Still working on this—but feeling encouraged today!

(The not-online piece is in a similar vein to this: contemplativeinthemud.com/2024/02/01/g... )

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 3d

Last month, Bishop Hansen CSsR up in the NWT contacted me about my work on First Nations governance values & methods and what we make of synodality:
contemplativeinthemud.com/2024/10/22/d...

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 3d

I'm feeling pretty grateful today. An LDS guy just wrote a note of appreciation that makes it seem like I'm doing something right.
(re: contemplativeinthemud.com/2024/09/30/l... )

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 3d

It's such a noteworthy project. For me it's healing to hear people actually talk about this. There is so much silence.

Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 3d

“It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.” — Walter Brueggemann

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 5d

“There are others who... are so confident in their own cleverness that they ignore [others'] comments... and rely on their own exegesis. ... They are like people who imagine that bells they hear chiming are saying whatever they themselves happen to be thinking of.” — Humbert of Romans

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 5d

“Knowledge attained in prayer exceeds that attained through our own reasoning and conjectures.” — St. John of Ávila

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 5d

I’ll place it on my mental list of recommendations, next to

“Ditto for the hysteria.” – Robert Barron

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 6d

To be clear, Mi'kmaw and Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey are two different languages. But as a New Brunswicker with a heart for reconciliation, I'm glad that the latter (presumably) is being taught in the Passamaquoddy area.

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 6d

One of the short quotes that, in a formative period, made the greatest impression on me; I was introduced to through Jacques and Raïssa Maritain:

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Henri Nouwen @henrinouwen.bsky.social · 6d

"The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace."

Book Name: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

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Ben (Contemplative in the Mud) @contemplativeinthemud.com · 7d

Also just remarkable how much he apparently talked about Clare... on Francis' feast day (it usually, of course, going the other way around with Francis and Clare, Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal, etc.).

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