The Boston Globe reports that a group of Catholics opposed to the sale of Caritas Christi Health Care to the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI yesterday asking him to “call for the cessation of all negotiations with Cerberus." Cerberus and Caritas representatives have said they intend to maintain the ( Read more... )

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself ( Read more... )

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot

" As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold the person down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might ." ~ Marian Anderson

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel,
but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

~ Pearl S. Buck

“Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. ”

~ Cesar Chavez

“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”

~ Mohammed

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ( Read more... )

... we get daily reflections in our email on our mission and general statements on life as it should be.
Sometimes they are heavy handed, sometimes you can tell the person in the rotation doesn't take the task of sending them out very seriously, and sometimes they are just very appropo.
I found this one to be excellent for restoring my sense of ( Read more... )