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Quote of the day, 29 August: Jessica Powers
The lovers of Christ lift out their hands to
the great gift of suffering.
For how could they seek to be warmed and clothed
and delicately fed,
to wallow in praise and to drink deep draughts
of an undeserved affection,
have castle for home and a silken couch for bed,
when He the worthy went forth, wounded and hated,
and grudged of even a place to lay His head?This is the badge of the friends of the Man of Sorrows:
the mark of the cross, faint replica of His,
become ubiquitous now; it spreads like a wild blossom
on the mountains of time and in each of the crevices.
Oh, seek that land where it grows in a rich abundance
with its thorny stem and its scent like bitter wine,
for wherever Christ walks He casts its seed
and He scatters its purple petals.
It is the flower of His marked elect, and the fruit
it bears is divine.
Choose it my heart. It is a beautiful sign.Sr. Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D. (Jessica Powers)
The Sign of the Cross (1948, 1984)
Powers, J 1999, The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, Siegfried, R & Morneau, RF (eds.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: The Beheading of John the Baptist, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1869. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
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Quote of the day, 21 August: St. Teresa of Avila
To Padre Jerónimo Gracián, Madrid
Avila, 21-22 August 1578… I tell you that ever-present to me is what they did with Fray John of the Cross, for I don’t know how God bears with things like that; even you don’t know everything about it.
For all these nine months he was held in a little prison cell where small as he is, he could hardly fit. In all that time he was given no change of tunic, even though he had come close to the point of death. Only three days before his escape the subprior gave him one of his shirts. He underwent harsh scourges, and no one was allowed to see him.
I experience the greatest envy. Surely our Lord found in him the resources for such a martyrdom. And it is good that this be known so that everyone will be all the more on guard against these people. May God forgive them, amen.
An investigation should be conducted to show the nuncio what those friars did to this saint, Fray John, without any fault on his part, for it is a pitiful thing. Tell this to Fray Germán; he will do it because he’s quite mad about this.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Letter 260 to Padre Jerónimo Gracián
Note: Father Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, Discalced Carmelite scholar and co-translator and editor of the collected works of Saints Teresa and John of the Cross, explains: “These are two fragments from one letter. They reflect Teresa’s first impressions on learning of St. John of the Cross’s escape from his prison cell in Toledo and of what he suffered there.” Saint John escaped during the night, possibly on August 17–18, 1578; Teresa wrote these lines only a few days later.
Teresa of Avila, St 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: Composite image of Saint John of the Cross escaping during the night. Image credit: Carmelite Quotes, created with Adobe Express.
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/241119/ A beat written in blood across Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran #Gaza #Iran #journalists #KillingReporters #Lebanon #Martyrdom #War
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/231256/ Hezbollah Statement on the US Aggression Against Iraq #a #against #aggression #and #blatant #brotherly #brutal #Condemns #flagrant #Hezbollah #in #independence #Injury #International #Iraq #Iraq’s #Islam #its #law #led #Martyrdom #martyrs #number #of #on #others #people #proud #righteous #several #sovereignty #statement #the #Times #to #US #violation #which
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France Marks 10 Years Since Father Jacques Hamel’s Martyrdom: ‘It gives me great strength’
People hold a banner with a picture of French Father Jacques Hamel after a July 27, 2016, Mass…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #CardinalJean-MarcAveline #FatherJacquesHamel #martyrdom #Terrorism
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Quote of the day, 24 July: Blesseds Mary Pilar, Teresa, Mary Angeles & Mary Sagrario
Blessed Mary Pilar of St. Francis Borgia
Confidence without limits in the mercy of God, hoping for everything from Jesus through Mary, who, as my Mother and the Mother of Mercy, will watch over me.
Abandonment to what God desires of me, and for that, my Jesus, to love You madly and to aspire to intimate union with You.
May nothing and no one occupy my heart, but only You, my Spouse.
These are my resolutions, my Jesus, that by means of Your grace I hope to keep.
Retreat resolutions, 1933
Blessed Teresa of the Child Jesus and St. John of the Cross
“For ever I will sing the mercies of the Lord” (Ps. 88:2).
My theme: to repay love with love.
My office in Carmel: to be a little ant of love.
My aspirations: to be alone with Christ alone.
First profession note, 6 March 1927
Blessed Mary Angeles of St. Joseph
What a great joy it is to be a Carmelite! However much you may try to think of it, you cannot imagine it. I am happier with each passing day, and my health is very good. Now what you have to do is pray that each day I grow better, because there is nothing in me that is good. I am always proposing and never accomplishing.
Letter to her eldest sister, 21 April 1930
Blessed Mary Sagrario of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
May Jesus reign always in my heart! The Lord asks me to be humble, to weep over my sins, to love him much, to love my sisters much, to mortify them in nothing, not to mortify myself uselessly, to live recollected in him wanting nothing for myself, completely surrendered to his divine will.
From her letters and writings
Note: On 24 July 1936, Blesseds Mary Pilar, Mary Angeles, and Teresa were killed at Guadalajara, Spain, for their fidelity to the faith. Saint John Paul II beatified them on 29 March 1987, just 33 days before he beatified another Discalced Carmelite martyr, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). On 10 May 1998, he beatified Blessed Mary Sagrario, who was martyred in Madrid on 15 August 1936. Mary Maravillas of Jesus was beatified in the same liturgy.
Rodriguez, J 2016, The Dialogues of the Carmelites of Guadalajara: The Story of Three Martyred Carmelite Nuns of the Spanish Civil War, translated by the Carmel of St. Joseph, Carmelite International Publishing House, Trivandrum.
We are grateful to our Discalced Carmelite Friars for providing the English texts of liturgical offices published after the 1993 edition of the Carmelite Proper—Liturgy of the Hours.
Featured image: Photos of the Blessed Martyrs of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Spain. Image credit for the individual photos: Discalced Carmelites.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
https://www.europesays.com/iran/190530/ Iran bids farewell to Martyr Ayatollah Khamenei #AyatollahSeyyedAliKhamenei #Iran #Martyrdom #Tehran
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/190391/ Iraq holds its breath ahead of a historic farewell #AyatollahSeyyedAliKhamenei #Iran #Iraq #Martyrdom
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IRAN HAS WON! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
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IRAN HAS WON! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #iran #iranwar #usiranwar #iranuswar #usiranconflict #iranusconflict #stopwar #stopconflict #endwar #endconflict #war #wars #conflict #conflicts #iranwillwin #iranhaswon #ayatollah #ayatollahkhamenei #ayatollahalikhamenei #khamenei #alikhamenei #martyr #martyrs #martyred #martyrdom
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IRAN HAS WON! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #iran #iranwar #usiranwar #iranuswar #usiranconflict #iranusconflict #stopwar #stopconflict #endwar #endconflict #war #wars #conflict #conflicts #iranwillwin #iranhaswon #ayatollah #ayatollahkhamenei #ayatollahalikhamenei #khamenei #alikhamenei #martyr #martyrs #martyred #martyrdom
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The Domain of Culture in the Israel-US War with Iran
Introduction: War on the Field of Culture The war waged by Israel and the United States (US) against…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Americanexceptionalism #breakingnews #CultureasaBattlefield #Holocaust #Iran #Israel #martyrdom #resistance #siegementality #UnitedStates #War
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/170929/ The Domain of Culture in the Israel-US War with Iran #AmericanExceptionalism #CultureAsABattlefield #Holocaust #Iran #Israel #Martyrdom #resistance #SiegeMentality #UnitedStates #War
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/158302/ Iraq’s holy shrines ready to mark Muharram mourning processions #and #anniversary #are #as #commemorate #grandson #holy #hussein #Imam #in #Iraq #Iraq’s #Karbala #mark #marking #Martyrdom #Mohammad #mourning #Muharram #of #PBUH #preparing #processions #Prophet #ready #Shia #shrines #the #third #to
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #zeal #belief #correctness #devotion #earnestness #martyr #martyrdom #opinion #reality #sacrifice #sincerity #truth
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #zeal #belief #correctness #devotion #earnestness #martyr #martyrdom #opinion #reality #sacrifice #sincerity #truth
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #zeal #belief #correctness #devotion #earnestness #martyr #martyrdom #opinion #reality #sacrifice #sincerity #truth
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #zeal #belief #correctness #devotion #earnestness #martyr #martyrdom #opinion #reality #sacrifice #sincerity #truth
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/142252/ Martyred Leader funeral to last three days: Tehran official #AliKhamenei #FuneralProcession #Iran #IsraeliAggression #LEADEROFTHEISLAMICREVOLUTION #Martyrdom #Tehran
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess
on #MENAdoc:"Rauḍat aš-šuhadāʾ-i türkī - روضة الشهداء ترکی" [by Kāšifī] ed. by Mullā Yaʿqūb Ḫwāǧa
[Taškent : Lit. arend. I. Kostelova, 1898]
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess
on #MENAdoc:"Rauḍat aš-šuhadāʾ-i türkī - روضة الشهداء ترکی" [by Kāšifī] ed. by Mullā Yaʿqūb Ḫwāǧa
[Taškent : Lit. arend. I. Kostelova, 1898]
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29 May: Blessed Elia of St. Clement Fracasso
May 29
BLESSED ELIA OF SAINT CLEMENT FRACASSO
VirginOptional Memorial
Blessed Elia of St. Clement was born in Bari, 17th January 1901, to deeply Christian parents. At her baptism, she was given the name Theodora, gift of God. In the brief course of her life on earth, she lived up to her name. On 8th April 1920 (then Feast of St. Albert, author of the Carmelite Rule), she entered the Carmel of St. Joseph in Bari. She received the habit on 24th November of the same year, the feast of St John of the Cross. On 8th December 1924, she wrote in her own blood her act of total and definitive offering to the Lord with the vow to embrace the “most perfect”. She died on Christmas day 1927. On 19th December 2005, Pope Benedict XVI signed the Decree of Beatification. She was proclaimed Blessed in Bari Cathedral on 18th March 2006.
From the Common of Virgins
Office of Readings
Second Reading
From the Writings of Blessed Elia of Saint Clement
(Ed. O.C.D. 2001: pp. 282, 295, 322)The desire to lose herself in God and her apostolic zeal
O sweet hiddenness, I love to pass my days in your shadow and to consume thus my existence, for love of my sweet Lord. At times, thinking of those eternal rewards, so great compared to the slight sacrifices of this life, my soul remains in wonder, and seized by an ardent longing, it throws itself on God, exclaiming: “Oh my good Jesus, I want to reach my goal, the gates of salvation, no matter what the cost. Do not deny me anything; give me suffering. May this be the most intimate martyrdom of my poor heart, hidden from every human glance: a rugged cross is what I ask of you. I want to pass my days here below hanging from this cross.”
When we suffer with Jesus, the suffering is delightful; I long to suffer with all my heart, beyond this I no longer want anything.
My Delight, who could ever separate me from You? Who could be capable of breaking these strong chains that keep my heart attached to yours? Perhaps the abandonment of creatures? It is precisely this that unites the soul to its Creator. Perhaps tribulations, suffering, crosses? It is in these thorns that the canticle of the soul that loves you is freest and lightest. Perhaps death? But this will be nothing other than the beginning of true happiness for the soul. Nothing, nothing can separate this soul from You, not even for a brief moment. It was created for You and is lost if it does not abandon itself to You.
My life is love: this sweet nectar surrounds me, this merciful love penetrates me, purifies me, renews me, and I feel it consuming me. The cry of my heart is: “Love of my God, my soul searches for You alone. My soul, suffer and be quiet; love and hope; offer yourself but hide your suffering behind a smile, and always move on. I want to spend my life in deep silence, in the depths of my heart, in order to listen to the gentle voice of my sweet Jesus.
“Souls, I will search for a way to cast you into the sea of Merciful Love: souls of sinners, but above all souls of priests and religious. To this end, my existence is slowly disappearing, consumed like the oil of a lamp that watches near the Tabernacle.”
I sense the vastness of my soul, its infinite greatness that the immensity of this world cannot contain: it was created to lose itself in You, my God, because you alone are great, infinite and thus You alone can make it completely happy.
RESPONSORY
R/. An unmarried woman, like a young girl, can devote herself to the Lord’s affairs. * Her aim is to be dedicated to him in body as in spirit (alleluia).
V/. God is the strength of her heart, he is hers forever: * Her aim is to be dedicated to him in body as in spirit (alleluia).Morning Prayer
Canticle of Zechariah
Ant. O Lord, how gentle is your love! Lost in your embrace I shall be blessed forever (alleluia).
Prayer
O Lord,
who were pleased to accept the self-offering
of Blessed Elia of Saint Clement, virgin;
grant through her intercession,
that, sustained by the Eucharist
we may be able faithfully to do your will.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you,
and the Holy Spirit,
God, forever and ever.Evening Prayer
Canticle of Mary
Ant. Your love, O Lord, is like a fire consuming me in the ardent furnace of your Heart (alleluia).
Blessed Elia of St. Clement (Teodora Fracasso, 1901-1927)Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.
#Bari #blessed #BlessedEliaOfStClement #GodAlone #infiniteBeing #Liturgy #LiturgyOfTheHours #love #loveAlone #loveForJesus #loveForTheLord #loveIsLoss #loveOfGod #loveWithoutLimits #martyrdom #mercifulLove #optionalMemorial #perfection #suffer #suffering #TeodoraFracasso #trueLove #virgin -
https://www.europesays.com/iran/95713/ The martyrdom of the preacher of the shrine of Hazrat Zainab (SA) in Damascus, Syria #al #Damascus #explosion #Farhan #Hassan #Hazrat #in #Khatib #Mansour #Martyrdom #martyred #Media #of #preacher #reported #s #SA #Seyyed #shrine #Syria #that #the #today #was #Zainab
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/79950/ Lebanon Condemns ’Israeli’ Attack Killing Journalist Amal Khalil #against #aimed #Amal #An #Aoun #attack #Condemns #condolences #country #expressed #in #Islam #Israeli #Joseph #journalist #Khalil #Khalil’s #killing #Lebanese #Lebanon #Martyrdom #obscure #Occupation #over #president #s #saying #southern #strike #the #Times #to #violations
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Quote of the day, 22 April: Blessed Isidore Bakanja
“If you see my mother, or if you go to the judge, or if you meet a priest, tell them that I am dying because I am a Christian.”
Blessed Isidore BakanjaIn his catechesis for Jubilee Year pilgrims on 8 November 2025, titled To Hope Is to Bear Witness, Pope Leo XIV reflected on Blessed Isidore Bakanja, the Congolese martyr who refused to remove his Carmelite scapular when ordered to do so by his Belgian employer.
Baptized in 1906 and devoted to the Rosary and the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, he quietly shared the faith despite growing hostility. On 22 April 1909, his fidelity was put to the test: refusing to discard the scapular, he was pinned to the ground and beaten with over one hundred blows from a nail-studded whip, then chained in place to suffer for his faith.
In the months that followed, he forgave his persecutor and died with the Rosary in hand and the scapular once more around his neck—remembered today as the Scapular Martyr.
Dear Brothers and Sisters, as we continue our Jubilee catechesis, let us reflect today on the life of Blessed Isidore Bakanja, a Congolese martyr who lived out his faith with joy and authenticity, even in hostile environments such as his workplace. The supervisor of the European-owned plantation where Isidore worked despised the Catholic missionaries who defended the rights of the indigenous, and unleashed his anger upon Isidore.
This courageous young man continued to manifest his faith, expressing his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary by wearing his brown scapular. While close to death due to the abuse he suffered, Isidore declared that he would pray for his aggressors from heaven.
His testimony reminds us that we have much to learn from our persecuted brothers and sisters in Africa. Let us strive to follow his example of perseverance in the faith despite any persecution or rejection we may face. Blessed Isidore, pray for us, so that we too can give witness to our faith with courage and enthusiasm!
Pope Leo XIV
Pope Speaks of Isidore Bakanja as Model for Hope
Order of Carmelites (ocarm.org) 2025, Pope Leo XIV speaks of Isidore Bakanja as model for hope, viewed 20 April 2026, https://ocarm.org/en/item/6743-pope-leo-xiv-speaks-of-isidore-bakanja-as-model-for-hope.
Featured image: Blessed Isidore Bakanja, detail from his beatification banner. Image credit: Carmelite Order
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Biblioteca
Verse 1
#Columbine #copycats #grief #hopelessness #Lament #martyrdom #Masculinity #Rage #ritesOfPassage #schoolShooting #shame #SongLyrics
You can keep hunting for a reason
In between the lines
I'm going to write my epitaph
On a bullet-broken spine
Look under number 16
See who you will find
Rip another page out
Until the clock ticks 49.
Verse 2
No, this isn't ketchup
You're not going blind
Who's the soft boy now?
And now we're out of time.
Despair is on the menu
Hate is the wine
The table's set for 16
Here is where we'll dine
Bridge
Shame me
Name me
Call me what you will
Fame me
Game me
It's time to pay the bill
Outro
I'm not your anti-hero
I'm not the martyr kind
I'm just another lost boy
Who stepped over the line
No more power-ups
No more petty crime
Checked out at 1208
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/61483/ 40 days after Leader’s martyrdom: A powerful symbol of national unity in Iran #AyatollahSeyyedAliKhamenei #Iran #Martyrdom #Tehran
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Who Will Be Romero Today?
Romero Rally Flyer 1990On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.
Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”
That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.
Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.
And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.
Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.
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Who Will Be Romero Today?
Romero Rally Flyer 1990On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.
Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”
That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.
Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.
And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.
Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AntiWar #ArchbishopRomero #assassination #ÓscarRomero #campesinos #CentralAmerica #ChristianPeacemaking #ChurchAndState #civilDisobedience #ElSalvador #ElSalvadorCivilWar #faithAndPolitics #humanRights #immigrantJustice #Immigration #Justice #LiberationTheology #Martyr #martyrdom #Mercy #Nicaragua #Nonviolence #peaceWitness #propheticWitness #Refugees #remembrance #Romero #Sermon #solidarity #USForeignPolicy #USIntervention #WhiteHouseProtest -
Who Will Be Romero Today?
Romero Rally Flyer 1990On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.
Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”
That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.
Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.
And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.
Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AntiWar #ArchbishopRomero #assassination #ÓscarRomero #campesinos #CentralAmerica #ChristianPeacemaking #ChurchAndState #civilDisobedience #ElSalvador #ElSalvadorCivilWar #faithAndPolitics #humanRights #immigrantJustice #Immigration #Justice #LiberationTheology #Martyr #martyrdom #Mercy #Nicaragua #Nonviolence #peaceWitness #propheticWitness #Refugees #remembrance #Romero #Sermon #solidarity #USForeignPolicy #USIntervention #WhiteHouseProtest -
Who Will Be Romero Today?
Romero Rally Flyer 1990On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.
Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”
That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.
Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.
And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.
Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AntiWar #ArchbishopRomero #assassination #ÓscarRomero #campesinos #CentralAmerica #ChristianPeacemaking #ChurchAndState #civilDisobedience #ElSalvador #ElSalvadorCivilWar #faithAndPolitics #humanRights #immigrantJustice #Immigration #Justice #LiberationTheology #Martyr #martyrdom #Mercy #Nicaragua #Nonviolence #peaceWitness #propheticWitness #Refugees #remembrance #Romero #Sermon #solidarity #USForeignPolicy #USIntervention #WhiteHouseProtest -
Who Will Be Romero Today?
Romero Rally Flyer 1990On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.
Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”
That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.
Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.
And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.
Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AntiWar #ArchbishopRomero #assassination #ÓscarRomero #campesinos #CentralAmerica #ChristianPeacemaking #ChurchAndState #civilDisobedience #ElSalvador #ElSalvadorCivilWar #faithAndPolitics #humanRights #immigrantJustice #Immigration #Justice #LiberationTheology #Martyr #martyrdom #Mercy #Nicaragua #Nonviolence #peaceWitness #propheticWitness #Refugees #remembrance #Romero #Sermon #solidarity #USForeignPolicy #USIntervention #WhiteHouseProtest -
Quote of the day, 5 March: Blessed Teresa of Guadalajara
We have not had to leave, thanks be to God, as so many of our Sisters have had to do. Our Sisters of Malagón had to leave at midnight on the day they were burning religious houses, without being able to save anything from the fire except the clothes they were wearing.
Have you had to suffer any attacks against your monastery? They say the two religious Orders that have had the most to suffer are the Society of Jesus and our Holy Reform, for being the Orders most hated by the Masons. It is a sign that they are making war on them.
What greater joy is there than to be hated by the enemies of Christ? We suffer much in seeing the wounds inflicted on our Holy Mother the Church, and the blindness of so many souls who, to their own cost, insist on persecuting Him, who gave His blood in order to gain eternal happiness for them.
I wrote to my uncle to find out about you and he answered me that you did not have to flee. You can’t imagine through what struggles and distress we have passed, since, as happens on these occasions, the news coming to us is edited and augmented.
On the eve of the feast of the Ascension (May 14), they told us that the arsonists were in Sigüenza, and since that is so close to us, we spent the entire night expecting they would come here, but everything was very peaceful in Sigüenza. It was all a false report; actually, my father came to see us by way of Sigüenza.
Blessed Teresa of the Child Jesus and St. John of the Cross
Letter to Sr. Maria of St. Teresa, STJ
Octave of Christmas, 1931Note: We recall the birth of Blessed Teresa on 5 March 1890 and the birth of her companion in martyrdom, Blessed Maria Angeles of St. Joseph on 6 March 1905.
Rodriguez, J 2016, The Dialogues of the Carmelites of Guadalajara: The Story of Three Martyred Carmelite Nuns of the Spanish Civil War, translated by the Carmel of St. Joseph, Carmelite International Publishing House, Trivandrum.
Featured image: A portrait of the three Discalced Carmelite martyrs of the Carmel of St. Joseph in Guadalajara. From left to right: Blessed Teresa, Blessed Maria Pilar, and Blessed Maria Angeles. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites
#BlessedMariaAngelesOfStJoseph #BlessedTeresaOfGuadalajara #CarmelOfGuadalajara #martyrdom #SpanishCivilWar -
Perspectives on Khamenei’s Death: Martyrdom and Oppression in Iran
📰 Original title: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing plays into Shiite Islam's reverence for martyrs, but not for all Iranians
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Richard Medhurst discusses the assassination of Sayyid Ali #Khamenei, highlighting its profound impact beyond a typical political assassination. Medhurst emphasizes Khamenei's role as a revolutionary leader and successor to #Khomeini, who continued to guide #Iran's anti-imperialist course. He notes that Khamenei's death is seen not as a defeat, but as a catalyst for increased resistance, fueled by a "win-win" mentality of victory or #martyrdom among Iranians
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Quote of the day, 31 January: St. Teresa of Avila
The grace of the Holy Spirit be with your charities, my daughters and sisters. You should know that I have never loved you as much as I do now, nor have you ever been so obliged to serve the Lord, for he has given you the great favor of being able to taste something of his cross and share in the terrible abandonment that he endured on it. Happy the day you entered that house where such a fortunate event was reserved for you!
I envy you very much, and indeed when I learned of all those changes — for everything was carefully communicated to me — and that they wanted to expel you from that house and about other details, I felt the greatest interior joy. I saw that, without your having crossed the sea, our Lord revealed to you mines containing eternal treasures.
Through these, I hope in the Lord, you will be left very rich and able to share with those of us who are here. For I believe that he will enable you to bear all without your offending him in any way. Don’t be afflicted that you feel it very much, for the Lord would want you to understand that you are not capable of as much as you thought when you were once so desirous of suffering.
Courage, courage, my daughters. Remember that God does not give anyone more trials than can be suffered and that His Majesty is with the afflicted. For this is certain, there is no reason to fear but to hope in his mercy. He will reveal the whole truth; and some machinations, which the devil kept hidden so as to create a disturbance, will be made known.
This was more painful for me than all that is happening now. Prayer, prayer, my sisters, and now let humility shine forth — and obedience in such a way that no one practices it more toward the appointed vicaress.
Oh, what a good time it is for gathering fruit from the resolutions you made to serve our Lord. Consider that often he desires to have proof that our works are in conformity with our resolutions and words.
Bring honor to the daughters of the Blessed Virgin, your sisters, in this great persecution, for if you help one another, the good Jesus will help you. Even though he sleeps at sea, when the storm gathers strength he calms the winds. He wants us to ask of him, and he loves us so much that he is always looking for ways to be of benefit to us.
May his name be blessed forever, amen, amen, amen.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Letter 284, 31 January 1579
Note: According to translators and editors Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez, the Carmelite community in Seville was undergoing a serious crisis. Father Jerónimo Gracián had been stripped of his authority as visitator and subjected to a trial initiated by the provincial of Andalusia, with the aim of discrediting him and deposing the prioress, María de San José Salazar; a new vicaress was then appointed against the will of the community. Saint Teresa of Jesus, fully aware of these events, sent this letter discreetly through a trusted intermediary, exhorting the sisters—accustomed to rehearsing for martyrdom—to live this real persecution with prayer, humility, and obedience.
Teresa of Avila, St 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: Saint Teresa “the Vagabond” is seen in this 20th c. statue by Spanish sculptor Fernando Cruz Solís (1923–2003) which graces the entry of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of the Incarnation in Avila. Image credit: Raquel / Adobe Stock (Stock photo)
#FatherJerónimoGraciánOfTheMotherOfGod #MariaDeSanJoséSalazar #martyrdom #StTeresaOfAvila #suffering
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It is terrifying reading the political speeches of #IRI officials and military.
The same, sad, arrogance of those in late 1980s when #Khomeini said he would slap Saddam so hard, he would never be able to get up, leading 10s of thousands of young people to their death against US, France, UK, Italy, German, Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morroco backed army of #Saddam
These lunatics grow up dreaming of #martyrdom, they don't give a shit how many 1000s die fighting yet another war!
#WarOnIran #tRump -
It is terrifying reading the political speeches of #IRI officials and military.
The same, sad, arrogance of those in late 1980s when #Khomeini said he would slap Saddam so hard, he would never be able to get up, leading 10s of thousands of young people to their death against US, France, UK, Italy, German, Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morroco backed army of #Saddam
These lunatics grow up dreaming of #martyrdom, they don't give a shit how many 1000s die fighting yet another war!
#WarOnIran #tRump -
It is terrifying reading the political speeches of #IRI officials and military.
The same, sad, arrogance of those in late 1980s when #Khomeini said he would slap Saddam so hard, he would never be able to get up, leading 10s of thousands of young people to their death against US, France, UK, Italy, German, Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morroco backed army of #Saddam
These lunatics grow up dreaming of #martyrdom, they don't give a shit how many 1000s die fighting yet another war!
#WarOnIran #tRump -
It is terrifying reading the political speeches of #IRI officials and military.
The same, sad, arrogance of those in late 1980s when #Khomeini said he would slap Saddam so hard, he would never be able to get up, leading 10s of thousands of young people to their death against US, France, UK, Italy, German, Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morroco backed army of #Saddam
These lunatics grow up dreaming of #martyrdom, they don't give a shit how many 1000s die fighting yet another war!
#WarOnIran #tRump -
It is terrifying reading the political speeches of #IRI officials and military.
The same, sad, arrogance of those in late 1980s when #Khomeini said he would slap Saddam so hard, he would never be able to get up, leading 10s of thousands of young people to their death against US, France, UK, Italy, German, Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morroco backed army of #Saddam
These lunatics grow up dreaming of #martyrdom, they don't give a shit how many 1000s die fighting yet another war!
#WarOnIran #tRump -
"These swamps were also crawling with renegades 125 years ago, poachers seeking their treasure at “Cuthbert Rookery,” an isolated, secret spot that was bejeweled with countless egrets, ibises, herons, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other wading birds." —Mike Kane for The Bitter Southerner
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/plume-a-tale-of-murder-martyrdom-in-the-everglades
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"These swamps were also crawling with renegades 125 years ago, poachers seeking their treasure at “Cuthbert Rookery,” an isolated, secret spot that was bejeweled with countless egrets, ibises, herons, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other wading birds." —Mike Kane for The Bitter Southerner
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/plume-a-tale-of-murder-martyrdom-in-the-everglades
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"These swamps were also crawling with renegades 125 years ago, poachers seeking their treasure at “Cuthbert Rookery,” an isolated, secret spot that was bejeweled with countless egrets, ibises, herons, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other wading birds." —Mike Kane for The Bitter Southerner
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/plume-a-tale-of-murder-martyrdom-in-the-everglades
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"These swamps were also crawling with renegades 125 years ago, poachers seeking their treasure at “Cuthbert Rookery,” an isolated, secret spot that was bejeweled with countless egrets, ibises, herons, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other wading birds." —Mike Kane for The Bitter Southerner
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/plume-a-tale-of-murder-martyrdom-in-the-everglades
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"These swamps were also crawling with renegades 125 years ago, poachers seeking their treasure at “Cuthbert Rookery,” an isolated, secret spot that was bejeweled with countless egrets, ibises, herons, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other wading birds." —Mike Kane for The Bitter Southerner
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/plume-a-tale-of-murder-martyrdom-in-the-everglades
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#NewHampshire #bishop warns #clergy to prepare for 'new era of #martyrdom'
Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the #EpiscopalChurch of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring #ReneeGood, who was fatally shot on Jan 7 by an #ICE officer.
#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #religion #law #ethics #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #protest #resist
https://apnews.com/article/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2 -
#NewHampshire #bishop warns #clergy to prepare for 'new era of #martyrdom'
Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the #EpiscopalChurch of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring #ReneeGood, who was fatally shot on Jan 7 by an #ICE officer.
#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #religion #law #ethics #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #protest #resist
https://apnews.com/article/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2 -
#NewHampshire #bishop warns #clergy to prepare for 'new era of #martyrdom'
Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the #EpiscopalChurch of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring #ReneeGood, who was fatally shot on Jan 7 by an #ICE officer.
#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #religion #law #ethics #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #protest #resist
https://apnews.com/article/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2 -
#NewHampshire #bishop warns #clergy to prepare for 'new era of #martyrdom'
Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the #EpiscopalChurch of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring #ReneeGood, who was fatally shot on Jan 7 by an #ICE officer.
#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #religion #law #ethics #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #protest #resist
https://apnews.com/article/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2 -
#NewHampshire #bishop warns #clergy to prepare for 'new era of #martyrdom'
Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the #EpiscopalChurch of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring #ReneeGood, who was fatally shot on Jan 7 by an #ICE officer.
#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #religion #law #ethics #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #protest #resist
https://apnews.com/article/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2 -
Today's photo:
Oranges
- by H. R. Websterhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/805896687007776768/oranges?source=share
#poetry #immolation #HRWebster #death #martyrdom #palestine #gaza #witness #protest
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Today's photo:
Oranges
- by H. R. Websterhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/805896687007776768/oranges?source=share
#poetry #immolation #HRWebster #death #martyrdom #palestine #gaza #witness #protest
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Today's photo:
Oranges
- by H. R. Websterhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/805896687007776768/oranges?source=share
#poetry #immolation #HRWebster #death #martyrdom #palestine #gaza #witness #protest