Verse of the day
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
– Psalm 90:1–2
Voice of the day
Our time was yesterday and our time is today and our time will be tomorrow. We stand in these spaces not to claim rightness, but to claim wholeness.
– Kaitlin Curtice, “A Shared Vision of Contemplative Activism”
Prayer of the day
Everlasting God, help us stand rooted in your eternal presence to live into the wholeness you created us for.
Verse of the day
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.
– Matthew 23:23
Voice of the day
You speak of justice, yet you are cruel to those most in need of your help!
– Esmeralda, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996)
Prayer of the day
God, keep us from hollow righteousness, and give us the courage to live out true justice, mercy, and faith, especially for those most in need of our care.
Verse of the day
Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.
– Mark 9:37
Voice of the day
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
– Harvey Milk
Prayer of the day
God, help us welcome every young person, especially the most vulnerable, with the love, safety, and dignity you call us to offer.
There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done “for the common good.” — Disputed Questions, p. 167, Kindle Edition)
Our mission in the world is the same as it has always been, to build the Kingdom of God, which is a Kingdom of Love. Love cannot exist except between persons. For there to be love, we must first of all safeguard the liberty and integrity of the human person. We must provide an education that strengthens man against the noise, the violence, the slogans and the half-truths of our materialistic society. — Disputed Questions, p. 148 (Kindle version)
Christians can never, with a good conscience, yield to the lure of totalitarianism. Even when a political system promises a strong arm with which to defend the Church, if that arm ends in a mailed fist, and if the “protection” offered is that of a secret police and concentration camps, we cannot accept its protection. — Disputed Questions, p. 148
Verse of the day
Indeed, the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
– Hebrews 4:12
Voice of the day
The basic claim made by the Bible for the word of God is not so much that it is to be blindly accepted because of God’s authority, but that it is recognized by its transforming and liberating power.
– Thomas Merton, “Opening the Bible” (1970)
Prayer of the day
Lord, let your Word change us and set us free, showing its power by how it transforms our hearts.
Love is a word that has been emptied of content by our materialistic society. In our world “love” is reduced to the infatuation celebrated in popular songs. Genuine love cannot be taken for granted, and least of all today. But we Christians seem to take it for granted. We seem to feel that we “love one another” and that we know very well what love is. We tend to act as if things were so well regulated by love in our own household that we could safely forget about it and go out to preach to others. Hence we are not worried about love, so much as about doctrine. (Disputed Questions, p. 143)
The history of the Church is a confusion of successes and apparent failures of Christianity…. The Church alone has never lost her way. But the thing that keeps her on the right way is not power, not human wisdom, not political dexterity, or diplomatic foresight. There are times in the history of the Church when these things became, for Christian leaders, stones of stumbling and sources of delusion. The thing that keeps the Church and the Christian on the right way is love. And this is necessary, because love is the highest expression of personality and of freedom. — Disputed Questions, pp. 141, 142 (Kindle)
As [Daddy] said in his book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, “We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.”
Let us choose community and, in Daddy’s words, “make of this old world a new world.” — Bernice King (source)
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