Daniel Berrigan, SJ died 4/30/2016. Famous for his courageous work for peace, he was essentially a poet of word and deed—with all the sensitivity that goes with that vocation. Like Jeremiah and other prophets he was deeply sensitive to violence and catastrophe....
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...but he also had a heart of flesh and suffered deeply over the suffering of the innocent. I first met Dan in 1972 (at 16), never imagining that we would become friends, or that I would work with him on so many books (the last published the week of his death).
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He could be hard on his friends, because he expected so much of us. Yet I remember most his generosity, loyalty, and capacity for celebration. At his memorial service I spoke about his impact on so many young people like me, thinking of the disciples who tagged after Jesus...
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He asked them: “What are you seeking?” They gave a lame response, “Where are you staying?” which actually meant: "What is the meaning of life?” To which he replied: "Come and see!"
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Dan didn't just lecture you about what you should be doing. He issued an invitation: Come and see what it is like to live as if the Sermon on the Mount were true; come and see what it is like to be a disciple, a peacemaker. Come and see what it means to be a human being.
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I first met Dan Berrigan as a grad student @ Columbia Univ in 1978. I walked into a 12 Noon Mass of the Woodstock St. Paul Community on campus and Dan was presiding. I was swept by his radical truth, how he clearly lived the "Good News" ... a Jesuit of conviction. A man missed.
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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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