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Friday 29 June 2018

Colleagues List, July 1st, 2018

Vol. XIV No. 1

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE


CANADA DAY EDITION
 
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
wholst@telus.net

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Dear Friends,
 
Canada is 151 years old this weekend and well into its second century. We thank God for giving us the gift of living in this land. We work hard to help people from other lands to settle and become Canadians too!
 
My Special Item this week gives some background to a small museum Marlene and I visited while in St. Jacobs, Ontario - my home town. It was a helpful reminder of the story of political refugees from Europe who came to this country via the United States (sound familiar?) more than two hundred years ago. Mennonites have contributed much to our land in the two centuries they have lived here, in Canada's east and west.
 
I hope you find the other parts of Colleagues List to be of interest too.
 
Wayne

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SPECIAL ITEM

THE MENNONITE STORY

On a recent trip to mid-Ontario, where our focus was on nature and friends in the Georgian Bay region of the province, we did get to spend a few days in the area where I grew up - Waterloo County in general and St. Jacobs in particular. I would like to share some thoughts after Marlene and I visited a special museum named "The Mennonite Story"
 
https://tinyurl.com/y95ng9xl

This small, but well-designed location tells the story of the Anabaptist movement which began during the sixteenth century Reformation - spread to North America and Russia during the centuries following - and subsequently throughout the world in modern times.

Persecution

The disciples of former Catholic priest Menno Simons firmly believed that baptism into the Christian faith only had meaning if the recipient chose to be baptised. That understanding is commonly held by many non-Mennonite Christians today, but - five hundred years ago, the "Anabaptist" or re-baptism movement was a radical departure from both Catholic and Protestant tradition. The result was that those who become Christians by personal choice were hunted down and slaughtered as heretics. This story is vividly displayed in the museum and it is both a gruesome and enlightening experience to go through.

Migration

Mennonites who were able to escape Europe found refuge in places like Pennsylvania in the United States and the Ukraine in Russia, where new territories opened to an essentially agricultural people. Subsequently, many American Mennonites moved to Southern Ontario and - because they did not trust the American revolution and its leaders - they were determined to remain living in British-controlled North America. Thus, the settlements that began in the Waterloo region of Ontario more than 200 years ago.

Mennonites of the "Russian" tradition had moved to that country as others moved to America. Eventually, political unrest in Russia forced most of them that escaped new persecution to come to Canada as well as the USA in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ties between the Mennonites of both migrations have grown strong over the years. This led to a third key development in Anabaptist theology and practice.

Proclamation - Peace and Justice

The persecution of Mennonites during more than four centuries led to a major change in the Anabaptist approach to the world. Their theology shifted from self-preservation to an outreach witness devoted to service of those in need and who were now suffering from political injustice. The existence of the Mennonite Central Committee and its many forms of global ministry is important evidence that many Mennonites across their spectrum have learned from their experience and are now sharing their spirituality with everyone - including former religious enemies.

It is a wonderful sign of progress to learn of Anabaptist, Protestant and-Catholic dialogue springing up around the globe. The result is that Christian faith is enhanced, and the world is better served.

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Conclusion:

It was good for me to visit "The Mennonite Story" museum, located in the same neighburhood where I was raised in my home town.

If you would like to discover more about the Mennonites and St. Jacobs, why not check out the interesting website:
 .
St. Jacobs Country
https://stjacobs.com/

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
June 24th, 2018

"Beware of Politicians Quoting Bible Verses"
 

  https://tinyurl.com/ya99w9th

--

Lorna Dueck,
Toronto, ON.

In Context (Team Written)

"Canadian Senate Passes Bill to Legalize Marijuana,

  But Are We Ready for It?" 
  https://tinyurl.com/ycrojvld

--

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal Web Site
June 25th, 2018

"The Mary of Scripture and The Mary of Devotions"

   https://tinyurl.com/ydgur4dc

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NET NOTES

DON POSTERSKI DIES AT 76
Veteran Canadian Evangelical Leader

Inter-Varsity Press Website and Obituary
June 19th, 2018


https://tinyurl.com/y7mnphqr

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TRINITY WESTERN COURT RULING
WAS A GOOD DECISION FOR CANADA
No Religion Should Define Law for All

United Church Observer Website,
June 2018


https://tinyurl.com/yd8oy9za

Law School Reassesses Its Community Covenant
in Light of Canadian Supreme Court Ruling

Religion News Service
June 22nd, 2018


https://tinyurl.com/y9l25rh2

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HOW CHRISTIAN TRUMP VOTERS
CHOSE FEAR OVER COMPASSION
Fear Should Not be the Basis for Living

The Christian Century,
June 22nd, 2018


https://tinyurl.com/ybeyg9fh

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TIME FOR A BARMEN DECLARATION
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Drawing the Line Between What is 

Christian and Not
A Model Was Established in 1934

La Croix International
June 25th, 2018


https://tinyurl.com/y72s7lpp

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A POWERFUL POPE, BUT HOW POWERFUL?
Francis Continues to Fight Internal Church Battles

Reuters News Service (Interview)
June 27th, 2018


https://tinyurl.com/y76xwcsu

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IDEA THAT SECULARISM EQUALS
NEUTALITY IS BROKEN IN EUROPE
More Youth in Survey See Religion
as a Modern Societal Stabilizer

La Croix International
June 28th, 2018


https://tinyurl.com/yd5catex

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KING ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN
WINS TEMPLETON PRIZE FOR 2018
Islam-Based Interfaith Work is Recognized

Publisher's Weekly,
June 27th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y9xowx7b

Backstory on King Abdullah
Religion News Service,
June 27th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y7wjyf63

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CANADIAN CATHOLICS CELEBRATE 200 YEARS
OF EVANGELIZATION IN WESTERN CANADA
St. Boniface Manitoba the Locus of Events

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Website
June 27th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/ycxvfj6x

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CHRISTIANS IN ICELAND FRET AS GROUP
PROMOTES RECOGNITION OF PAGAN GODS
Are They More Than Just "Poetic Metaphors?"

La Croix International
June 22nd, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/ybyvcwl7

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THE DARK SIDE OF THE INTERNET
Modern Technology Can Promote Great Evil
An Example From Asia

UCA News,
June 26th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/ya2532n6

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Prophetic imagination is grounded in the conviction
that God is doing something lively in the world.


- Walter Brueggemann

--

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you
standing and stand up as well.


- Cassandra Duffy

--

I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth,
no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or
against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I
am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. 

 
- Malcolm X

--

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with
love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action,
rapidly performed and in sight of all. People will give their
lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over,
with all looking on and applauding as if on the stage. But
active love is labor and fortitude.

 
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

--

Here is the mystery, the secret, one might almost say the
cunning, of the deep love of God: that it is bound to draw
on to itself the hatred and pain and shame and anger and
bitterness and rejection of the world, but to draw all those
things on to itself is precisely the means, chosen from all
eternity by the generous, loving God, by which to rid his
world of the evils which have resulted from human abuse
of God-given freedom.
 
- N. T. Wright
 
--

True individuality is measured by this: how long or how far
one can endure being alone without the understanding of
others. The person who can endure being alone is poles
apart from the social mixer. This person is miles apart
from the one who manages successfully with everyone –
the one who possesses no sharp edges. God never uses
such people. The true individual, anyone who is going to
be directly involved with God, will not and cannot avoid
the human bite. The true individual will be thoroughly
misunderstood. God is no friend of cozy human gathering.


- Søren Kierkegaard

-- 

We are a spiritually impoverished generation; we search
in all the places the Spirit ever flowed in the hope of finding
water. And that is a valid impulse. For if the Spirit is living
and never dies, it must still be present wherever it once
was active.…It is like a small but carefully tended spark,
ready to flare, glow, and burst into flame the moment it
feels the first enkindling breath.


- Edith Stein
 
--

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence
of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence
- we need to listen to God because it’s not what we say
but what he says to us and through us that matters.


Prayer feeds the soul – as blood is to the body, prayer is
to the soul – and it brings you closer to God. It also gives
you a clean and pure heart. A clean heart can see God,
can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.


- Mother Teresa

--

Race matters to a young woman’s sense of self when she
states her hometown, and then is pressed, “No, where are
you really from?”, regardless of how many generations her
family has been in the country. Race matters to a young
person addressed by a stranger in a foreign language,
which he does not understand because only English was
spoken at home. Race matters because of the slights, the
snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most
crippling of thoughts: “I do not belong here.”

 
- Sonia Sotomayor

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MOMENT IN TIME

Globe and Mail,
June 28th, 2018

The Treaty of Versailles

June 28, 1919: When the Treaty of Versailles brought
an official close to the First World War, it sparked
widespread rejoicing among Allied civilians and hopes
that an everlasting peace had been achieved. Their
celebration was understandable: Between 1914-18,
roughly 18-million people had been killed and although
no shots had been fired since the previous November,
fears lingered that the war might resume. The treaty
put those fears to rest.


A century later, however, its reputation is badly tarnished,
perhaps irretrievably, for its treatment of Germany. From
the first moment the signatures had started to dry, the
German people’s resentment started to burn. The treaty’s
terms were harsh on the country, including most infamously
the demand for billions in reparations, which went on to
trigger years of economic suffering. Within a decade, German

anger had led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and with him, the
hunger for vengeance.

While it may have officially ended one World War, the Treaty

of Versailles is now blamed, in great part, for sparking another.
 
--
 
Globe and Mail,
June 29th, 2018
 
The Calgary Stampede
 
June 29. 1908: It was four years away from being branded
the Calgary Stampede, but the Dominion Exhibition rodeo of
1908 made a monumental impression on Guy Weadick, an
American trick roper. He performed with the Miller Brothers
101 Ranch Wild West Show and saw 100,000 people attend
Calgary’s federally funded, seven day Exhibition. But Weadick
figured the outdoor show could be bigger still. So he went in
search of financial backers and eventually recruited George
Lane, Patrick Burns, A. J. McLean and A. E. Cross.
 
They put up $100,000 between them to become co-founders
of the Frontier Days and Cowboy Championship Contest, which
was renamed the Calgary Stampede. Weadick was told by the
four businessmen to organize “the greatest thing of its kind in
the world.” The Stampede became the richest of all the rodeos,
with $20,000 in prize money. (The Stampede now pays out $2-
million in prizes.) For their efforts, the co-founders were labelled the Big Four. To this day, there is a building on the Stampede grounds named the Big Four while every year the cowboy who "best typifies" the spirit of the Calgary Stampede wins the Guy Weadick Trophy.
 
– Allan Maki

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Bayard Rustin

We are all one, and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

(end)
 
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For those interested:

ST. DAVIDS ADULT SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT/ACTS MINISTRY
FALL PROGRAM BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE


ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT FALL BOOK STUDY

A Ten Week Series September 17th - November 26th, 2018
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

"THE BOOK OF JOY"

  Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Authors: Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $25.00

35 copies of the book will be available for sale.


Hardcover edition - https://tinyurl.com/yd849r6g

Registration and Book Sale begins Sunday, August 26th

Background information on the study book will be
provided here during the next weeks of summer:

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Some background:

During the 2017-2018 fall/winter two session-term -
Total class registrations: 70
Total books sold: 75

Our best year ever, since we started in 1998!

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ST. DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVELERS TOUR, 2019

East Europe and Russia have been chosen as our destinations!


This will be our fifth Spiritual Travelers Tour, with a
group emerging from St. David's but very open to others.
 
The Tour is entitled: "From Vienna to Moscow"

We plan a twenty-day tour that combines a focus
on spirituality, culture and the relationship between
religion and politics. The tour will run from the end
of April through the beginning of May, 2018.

A beautiful brochure with trip cost, itinerary, and
many helpful travel hints will soon be published.
 
Our trip sale will begin (with early bird registration 
benefits) beginning in September, 2018 
 
Our Canadian tour company is Rostad Tours, Calgary.

Contact Rostad Tours: http://www.rostad.com/

Follow these notices for weekly updates.

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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY

Ten Sessions September 13th- November 22nd, 2018

Biblical book(s) to be studied this autumn will be 

determined by the class at their first meeting on
Thursday, Sept. 13th with ten sessions following.
Gathering at 9:30 AM in the St. David's TM Room

and meeting 10:00 - 11:00 AM.

No charge


Study resource -

"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
  Edited by John Bowker


http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q

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Friday 15 June 2018

Colleagues List, June 24th, 2018

Vol. XIII No. 49

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

 
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
wholst@telus.net

This email is sent only to a voluntary subscriber list.
If you no longer wish to receive these weekly columns,
write to me personally - waholst@telus.net

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Dear Friends:

The news this week has been dominated by President Trump's demonic treatment of illegal refugees involving the separation of families. Now, he speaks of changing his policy to keep families together. However, many families remain separated, and we know that separation is his true purpose. I include some reaction to his policies in today's issue of Colleagues List but include many other more noble items of interest.

I derived a lot of pleasure this week - working with colleague Joan Polfuss-Boeckner. She and partner Keith Boeckner (deceased) have spent their careers working in inter-cultural and inter-denominational settings in Quebec City. My June column "A Tribute to Anglican-Lutheran Community" appeared this week in the Anglican Journal. It is my "tip of the hat" to fine Canadians and Christians.

Thanks for you reading of this religion and culture blog. It represents the last issue (No. 49) of Volume XIII.

Next week Volume XIV begins.

Wayne

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SPECIAL ITEM

My June Anglican Journal Column -

"A Tribute to Anglican-Lutheran Community"

Celebrating "The Boeckners"
Serving Together for Fifty Years in Quebec City

https://tinyurl.com/y85acta9


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COLLEAGUE COMMENT

Harry Winter, OMI.
Retired and living in Massachusetts

Harry sent me the link to the article on Pope Francis'
upcoming visit to the World Council of Churches
Ecumenical Center, Geneva.

Please see the item in "Net Notes" below.

June 18th, 2018

"Many thanks, Wayne, for your weekly e-letter.  

  It is very useful."

 Harry

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COLLEAGUE COMMUNICATIONS

Lorna Dueck,
Toronto, ON

Globe and Mail Op-Ed
June 17th, 2018

(Canadian Evangelicals are Unhappy
  With Supreme Court Ruling on Trinity-Western Law School)



Lorna's reference to "anti-Christian bias" in the court ruling seems to miss the fact - for one thing - that many Canadian Christians, including myself, agree with the ruling because of the larger issue of human rights recognised by the courts. Here is one instance where I disagree with Lorna. My Canada has always involved compromise for a greater good.

See Lorna's article here, and the "Point-Counterpoint" summary from the Globe and Mail Net Notes, below.

https://tinyurl.com/y7tysf7s

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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
June 20th, 2018

"Free Will Changes All Futures"
  https://tinyurl.com/y7ezsocc

--

Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL

Sightings,
June 18th, 2018

"But Who's Counting?"
  A Study of Mass Killings

http://tinyurl.com/yclhpkvl

--

Philip Yancey,
Colorado

Philipyancey.com
June 18th, 2018

"A Father is Born"
  A Reflection on Frederick Buechner

https://tinyurl.com/y7m4f68l

--

Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog,
June 15th, 2018

"Did You Say 'Shrub?'"
  https://tinyurl.com/y8kap7jq


--

​​​​​Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX


Personal Web Site
June 18th, 2018


"Mourning"
 
https://tinyurl.com/yaa5ytaz
 
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NET NOTES

SHAMEFUL AND SHAMELESS
Trump's Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy

La Croix International
June 20th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/ycgmzl8z

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READING ROMANS 13 WITH MENNONITES
Struggling With the American Reality Today

The Christian Century,
June 15th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y9kmjmym

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TRUMP'S ROTTEN FRUIT AND MY OWN
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit.
He never said doing so would be easy.

The Christian Century,
June 5th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y7n7rtk2

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IT IS TIME TO HEAL SRI LANKA'S WOUNDS
Peace and Reconciliation Remain Elusive

La Croix International
June 20th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/yafodwab

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I REGRET MY 100 HUNTLEY STREET BOOK
Author Troubled by What He Wrote 30+ Years Ago

United Church Observer,
June, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/yc4wfbpg

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WHAT GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY MEANS
FOR THE CHURCH IN AMERICA
"We Can No Longer Read the Bible
  Through an American Lens"

Alban Weekly Article
June 12th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/ycwwxsnk

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EGYPT FIGHTS ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
BY ALLOWING WOMEN LEADERS AT MOSQUES
A Good Example of Muslim Faith Progress

Religion News Service
June 21st, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y96yw8yq

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO CATHOLICS
COME TO THE AID OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS
Church Challenges Government; Advocates Compassion

Religion News Service
June 18th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y9zrykhn

--

(Suggested by Fr. Harry Winter, OMI)

POPE'S VISIT TO WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES'
HEADQUARTERS TAKES ON A SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE
It Continues a Long Series of Geneva-Rome Exchanges

National Catholic Reporter,
June 18th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y8u78fye

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TRUTHS OF RECONCILIATION - CANADIANS ARE DEEPLY
DIVIDED ON HOW BEST TO ADDRESS INDIGENOUS ISSUES
Most see the attention and money invested as ineffective

Angus Reid Institute,
June 5th, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y8nbablv

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Point-Counterpoint:

THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING
ON TRINITY-WESTERN LAW SCHOOL

Globe and Mail,
June 18th, 2019

The paper editorializes -

On Friday, the top court said law societies have the
right to refuse to accredit graduates of a proposed
law school at Trinity Western University, a Christian
institution which requires that all students sign an
agreement prohibiting them from having sex outside
of heterosexual marriage. Here are two perspectives
on the decision:

Lorna Dueck, host of Context TV: “A portion of Christian
freedom of expression loses big time in this ruling, which
implies that in Canada, sexual identity trumps religious
identity. …To restrict Canadians from a profession or
education because of beliefs and identity makes for a
shallow freedom and does nothing to foster the kind of
good-neighbourliness we’d like Canada to stand for.”
(see complete article by Lorna Dueck, above)

Elaine Craig, associate professor at Dalhousie’s Schulich
School of Law counters --

“While acknowledging that the lack of a Christian law school
will limit (to an insignificant extent) the religious freedom of
prospective TWU law students, the majority of the Supreme
Court of Canada accepted that this modest impact was
outweighed by the harmful consequences of accrediting
a new law school that excludes the vast majority of LGBTQ
people on the basis of their sexual orientation. …

[the decision] represents another step toward recognizing
LGBTQ people as equally worthy of respect and dignity.”

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TRUMP'S ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY INFLICTS
ANGUISH ON KIDS - WITH TOXIC HEALTH IMPACTS

Globe and Mail,
June 19th, 2018

“Forcibly separating young children from their parents is
nothing short of state-sanctioned child abuse. Housing
them in cages, in abandoned stores, in tents and in all
manner of kiddie Guantanamos is doubly cruel and
damaging when families are seeking refuge from
violence and unrest in their homelands.

The evidence that traumatic experiences have lasting
impacts on the mental and physical health of children
is incontrovertible.”  – André Picard

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SUMMER VACATION -
ANYWHERE BUT THE U.S.?

Globe and Mail,
June 20th, 2018

“It’s hard to know what to do as a Canadian watching
the turmoil in our neighbour to the south, and choosing
not to visit seems like an obvious answer. Not crossing
the 49th parallel is an easy act of solidarity with the Latin-
American families being torn apart, and not giving our
money to a country actively hostile toward us seems
like simple self-defence.” - Denise Balkissoon


*****

WISDOM OF THE WEEK

From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural
nor desirable.

- Anna J. Cooper


--

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman
or a child who can speak a word for freedom and
humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman
who can write will not be silent.


- Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
--

St. Paul was an apostle not of laws (we are not

justified by laws, he says in Romans), but an
apostle of a person: Jesus Christ. The one who
said, 'I was a stranger and you did not welcome
me' (Mt. 25).

- Fr. James Martin, SJ  
 
--

Travel changes you. As you move through this life
and this world you change things slightly, you leave
marks behind, however small. And in return, life -
and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time,
those marks - on your body or on your heart - are
beautiful.

Often, though, they hurt.

- Anthony Bourdain

--

Are you worried because you find it so hard to believe?
Don’t be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is
some part of your life where you are consciously resisting
or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some
part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at
his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some
animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your
reason? If so, you must not be surprised that you have
not received the Holy Spirit, that prayer is difficult, or
that your request for faith remains unanswered....
The person who disobeys cannot believe.

Only if you obey can you believe.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

--

Only the poor can know the riches of poverty. Only the
poor can know the riches of suffering. And it is because
the poor are the only ones to be able to know such riches
that they are able to stand up against the wretchedness
of the world, against injustice, against the suffering of the
innocent. If Christ chose to be born among the poor, it is
because he wanted the poor to teach the world the good
news of his message, the good news of his love for
humankind.

- Dominique Lapierre


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MOMENT IN TIME

Globe and Mail June 12th, 2018

Anne Frank receives her diary

June 12, 1942: For her 13th birthday on June 12, 1942,
Anne Frank, a German-born Jew then living with her family
in Amsterdam, was given a diary with a red-and-white
checked cover, a gift she picked out with her father,

Otto. It was the first item she took with her when, less
than a month later, the Frank family moved into the secret
annex of an office building to hide from Holland’s occupying
Nazis. The entries she recorded in her slanted, even hand
over the next two years – alert but calm, passionate but
often unsentimental, from her innermost thoughts to the
details of daily life in their hiding place – became the most
famous diary ever published, with more than 30 million
copies sold since it appeared in 1947. “When I write,
I can shake off all my cares,” Anne noted on April 5, 1944.
Four months later, the hidden family was discovered; to this
day no one knows how. Anne was transported by cattle car
to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, where
she died of typhus the following March. She was 15.

The soul she displayed in her diary is ageless. – Ian Brown


*****

CLOSING THOUGHT - Janelle Monáe

I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned
throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy
of greatness. Embrace what makes you unique, even
if it makes others uncomfortable.

 
(end)

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