“The energy of the story of the Visitation evokes and imagery of the best liturgy. Coming together from different places, different lives, meeting, singing, remembering the stories that feed us, it is like a pregnant womb, a store house of life for the journey. As they stand at the altar of their lives, they help us remember that our lives are also holy tables, places where our words can evoke hope, where our bodies nourish life, where we bless one another’s continuation on the road ahead” Sr. Fran Ferder.
This is what it means to be in community, a place where we remember that our lives are of sacred meaning and purpose; a place where we sustained to share this vocation with those who are broken. At our liturgy on Thursday night one young man pulled a knife on another, and I stepped in between them–he put it down–the space became community again. Community is about being a safe space. Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!
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Even those who acknowledge that our treatment of animals is indeed a great evil may feel that it is, like the other evils in our world, simply a product of human limitations, such as ignorance, pride, selfishness, fear, and so forth.
According to this view, the horror we inflict on animals is a problem, but not a fundamental cause of our problems—and, because it’s a problem for animals, who are less important than us humans, it’s a lesser problem. Dr. Will Tuttle