Feast of St Veronica. According to legend, she encountered Christ as he labored under the Cross on his way to Golgotha. Moved by compassion she wiped his face with her veil which later miraculously bore the features of his face.
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There is no indication she was a follower of Jesus—simply a woman who responded compassionately to a man in pain, a felon on his way to death. We need not have lived 2000 yrs ago to replicate her deed. Every person in need is an occasion: “Insofar as you did this to the least...”
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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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