Jon M. Sweeney

Author The Complete Francis of Assisi, The Pope Who Quit…etc. Coming Dec. 1: A Year with the Classics. Vermonter. Catholic married to a rabbi.

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St. Benedict’s Rule instructed young monks to read “in a low voice” while doing their reading in order to build memory stores. Until the modern era, spiritual reading meant speaking the words aloud.

I talk about this and many other things in my book that publishes December 1.

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Feast of Saint Martin of Tours
St. Francis imitating St. Martin's example of charity in giving away his cloak. Both~ Military Veterans

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The Latest from the Ukrainian Warzone https://t.co/ZqP0wEHtfO via @FocolareMedia

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If you're near Boston this week, go!

The Other Side of Air: A Celebration, in Poetry & Music, of Rainer Maria Rilke WITH MARK S. BURROWS & DAVID WHETSTONE - Lexington Community Education https://t.co/gkNZuJVp54

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Meister Eckhart lovers, this is available in 1 month.

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Ever see one of these?

I took this pic in Bardstown, KY a few years ago.

Cross out 'children' and replace with 'those.'

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The 6th century Caldey Stone at St Illtyd's Church on Caldey Island in Pembrokeshire. The stone is inscribed in Ogham in memory of Maglia Dubracunas (top right and left edges), with a later 9th century Latin prayer for the soul of Catuocunus. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday

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@Mithrandir219 I’d love for a review to be that powerful.

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The fury is unmistakable in the concluding paragraph of Mark O’Connell’s New York Review of Books review of JD Vance’s memoir about converting to Catholicism. And I say, Amen.

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Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders poised to get back powerful committee chair in new Congress https://t.co/L0jAvPJuIz

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Looking forward to seeing my Milwaukee friends in a month! Please come to @boswellbooks on Dec. 11.
To register:

https://t.co/tCZRXp4bCA

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Welcome to Boston.

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American signage: a study.

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Don’t argue with me.

Surely God Is Able https://t.co/PnMlGk2OXu via @YouTube

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Denise LEVERTOV, master of the lyric. One of her last poems (in The Great Unknowing). The flow and flux of the pronouns— the persons—creates a symphonic texture outfitting the sacred moments in the pellucid narrative. The last lines—the sublime “sometimes”—is beyond praise.

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Maggie Fergusson interviews Carmelite nun and @OldieMagazine columnist Teresa Keswick for @The_Tablet - after she has sorted out what she should call her: “Please, just Teresa, not Sister Teresa: that’s for my dentist and my bishop” https://t.co/h3L2TEGawG

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I’m off to Mexico City next week. Always vital to pick the right book to read on the plane.

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The bestselling modern writer of all time, Agatha Christie, published her first 6 books under a contract that said she earned no royalties until the first 2000 copies were sold. (2K was as many copies as a British publisher expected to sell of a book, period.)

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Moral progress

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Nasdaq plunges into correction territory and on pace for its worst day in months amid fears Democrats' midterm gains could impact AI data center boom https://t.co/Sjlvzufw9A

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This is incredible.

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Breaking News: California Governor Gavin Newsom spared the lives of everyone on death row in the state, commuting the sentences of 548 prisoners. https://t.co/q8yvpYC7LK

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There’s a crack in everything
and that’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen