Sister Joan kicks butt for all these occasions!
"When I need a kick in the pants, Sister Joan is always a good choice for a pep talk. Boy and how.
"She’s a Benedictine, so she’s pretty out-and-vocal for an Order that’s charism is prayer. But she’s been at prayer finally, and maybe it’s time to offer what she’s been given, at her venerable age, and so she does, and we are all better for it.
"I just heard the last :15 of a recent lecture of hers, and she pitches maxims out like baseballs in that one, too. One favorite: when she counsels women on leaving the Church or not, she says “If you leave, don’t leave quietly, and if you stay don’t STAY quietly.” She refers to herself as a ‘slightly used educator’. She taught history: she reminds that the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan is a functional-fiction: exists on maps and in Westerner’s minds, and we believe in several similar fictions. That lecture discusses how we have a choice between being a critic-outsider or a prophet-insider.
"This link talks more about what she means by propheticalness. Good stuff. Like a good ‘ol still sermon that for-sure isn’t going to end in :15. This one goes :35."
This video was posted two weeks after the #January6 #Insurrection
We still need it.
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