“Are you not a robber, you who consider your own that which has been given you solely to distribute to others? This bread which you have set aside is the bread of the hungry. ... Those riches you have hoarded are the riches of the poor.”—St Basil the Great, d 379
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Speaking of bread, today's Franciscan Saint of the Day is Brother Albert aka Adam Chmielowski, one of Poland's patrons, whose motto was, "We should be as good as bread."
I wrote about his development through positive disintegration here:
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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