Jesus came to us as a child
so that we might come to understand
not only that nothing we do is insignificant,
but that every small thing we do has within it
the power to change the world.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Human dignity is the same for all human beings:
when I trample on the dignity of another,
I am trampling on my own.
- Pope Francis.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be eradicated by the actions of human beings.
- Nelson Mandela
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Cultural nightmares of our time, like global warming and horror scenes of warfare, are certainly shifting our consciousness – toward the awareness that our conventional ways of being and acting are seriously out of kilter with the wider web of life. We are beginning to understand differently from the outside, but at the inner level the conversion has scarcely begun. I use “inner” here as applied to both our collective and individual identities.
– from Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu