Compassion & Intellect

This page is simply food for thought and a free gift for you.
Someone sent the card to me as an artshow ad, and it started my own thought on the subject of such a basic dichotomy. At that point, I took it off my postings board and began to carry it, then folded and gluestick-ed it, so that it worked like flipping a coin. I left it in my wallet/datebook, loose, so that I could not predict which side would show itself to me in the day's use. For weeks, it was a moment's help, over and over again.

Of course, it became soiled in time, so I trashed it, and left the idea alone, but later wanted a fresh one, and was glad I'd saved the image document above, and am enjoying it again. In stressful times, little light things can do a lot of good.

May you find it useful, too!

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A Compassion Story from Childhood Church Training

Most of us look back on inspiring words that motivated inspiring actions later in life. This was one of mine.

The Daily E-Pistle
Saturday May 10, 2003
Easter Season
Optional Memorial of Bl. Damien Joseph de Vesteur of Molokaí, priest

FEAST OF THE DAY

Bl. Damien Joseph de Veuster was born at Tremeloo, Belgium on
January 3, 1840. As a young man he was blessed with the
opportunity to attend college. During his college life, he was exposed
to the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (the Picpus
Fathers) and became very interested in their order. In 1860 he joined
the order and soon began volunteering for missionary opportunities
in corners of the world that had never heard the name of Jesus.

Damien's requests bore fruit in 1864 when he was sent to Hawaii
with nine other monks to evangelize. Two months after he landed, he
was ordained and given a remote parish with boundaries larger than
his homeland. Over the next decade, Fr. Damien worked tirelessly to
build his parish and to spread the good news.

In 1873 a position in the leper colony on Molokai was offered to the
missionaries in Hawaii. Many were reluctant to even consider the
position, as it meant that they would never be allowed to leave the
island but Fr. Damien volunteered to minister to these people. It is for
this work that Fr. Damien gained a wide reputation and is still
remembered. He worked to restore humanity and dignity to these
outcasts of society and in the process contracted leprosy himself. In
1885 Fr. Damien was diagnosed with leprosy but he refused to give
up his work or to leave the island for treatment. His selfless example
encouraged others to come to the island to minister physically and
spiritually to the lepers. Fr. Damien died of leprosy in 1889 and was
returned to his homeland to be buried in Antwerp Cathedral. He was
declared venerable in 1977 and beatified in 1995.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

I make myself a leper with the lepers, to gain all for Jesus Christ.
Bl. Damien Joseph de Veuster

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It is interesting to note that his work came to the world
at the same time as The Red Cross, and other international
compassion projects reacting to the horrors of the American Civil War.

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Barnes and Noble

Book: Coded clues in Bible predict future

Bible Code May 31, 1997

Web posted at: 2:15 p.m. EDT (1415 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A newly released book claims the Old Testament
contains coded clues to momentous events such as the assassinations of
Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, John F. Kennedy and Yitzhak Rabin.

"The Bible Code," written by Michael Drosnin and published by Simon &
Schuster, hit bookstands Thursday. The book says that the original
Hebrew text of the first five books of the Bible, when analyzed by
computer, identifies rabbis who lived centuries later and foretells
20th-century assassinations.

The code is likened to a huge crossword puzzle, with letters scattered
throughout the text with equal numbers of letters between them.

Critics have panned the book, calling its theory of coded prophesies
ludicrous.

The Associated Press contributed to this
report.

© 1997 Cable News Network, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.

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