Friends: To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it [...]

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Friends: The rulers of this world love to lord it over others, they like to make their ‘authority’ felt.  (They think they are Somebody if they step on nobodies.)  Not so with you.  If you would be great – serve others;  if you want to be first then become last.   So it is with the [...]

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Friends: “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday we will have another favorite Small and [...]

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Friends: I beg you…..be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves….the search going on within your inmost being is worthy of your whole love….the point is to live everything you experience.  Live your questions now.  Do not seek “answers” which cannot be attained because you would [...]

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Friends: Biblical study should have one primary aim and view: confrontation of all of us by the living God….with fear and trembling, we can dare to hope that God would address us through the biblical words….no serious question is out of place. No pious phrases will take the place of honest and determined examination of [...]

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Friends: From the Belly of the Beast Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God’s greatness and mysterious ways Till the great whale spouts music as he swims.  (Aldous Huxley) Join us for Soup and Sacrament on Wednesdays at 6:30.  [...]

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Friends: Why do we rush about looking for God – who is here at home with us, if all we want is to be with God? Let us fly to our beloved homeland – from the noise that is around us to the joys that are silent. St. Augustine Susanna El Mogazi invites you to [...]

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Friends: I am the one whose praise echoes on high. I adorn all the earth. I am the breeze that nurtures all things green. I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits. I am led by the spirit to feed the purest streams. I am the rain coming from the dew That causes the grasses [...]

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Friends: Here is the struggle no human presumes to picture….no one wants to face: In our living and dying – how shall we be rescued from endless dark Shadow? How break through the coldness of earth and stone, the hardheartedness of a faithless world? How shall we birth breath and heartbeat to walk this world [...]

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Friends: I was thinking how often and how many of us feel unloved, and unwanted on many occasions during our lives – all the misunderstandings there are in families, even between husband and wife. We all want heaven here and now, no patience, no waiting. Don’t think I don’t understand how you feel, because I [...]

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