We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgement. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. What faith I had I held to stubbornly. The need of patience emphasised in the writings of the saints consoled me on the slow road I was travelling. I would put all my affairs in the hands of God and wait.Dorothy Day 15 days of prayer with Dorothy Day by Michael Boover (New City Press, 2013)We should not therefore understand God and Creation as two different things, but as one and the same. For Creation subsists in God, and God is created in Creation in a remarkable and inef
22 May 2014, The Tablet
Spiritual readings – 24 May 2014
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