Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Hawaii’s Governor David Ige (D) signed a new law into force that will allow terminally ill patients to end their lives by assisted suicide.
April 9
“Love has a hem to her garment
That reaches the very dust.
It sweeps the stains
From the streets and lanes,
And because it can, it must.”
–Anonymous poem,
beloved by St. Teresa of Calcutta,
describing St. Fabiola
April 8
“Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be.”
–From a sermon of St. Bernard
April 7
St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle (1651-1719)
“Adapt yourself with gracious and charitable compliance to all your neighbor’s weaknesses. In particular, make a rule to hide your feelings in many inconsequential matters.”
–St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle to his Christian Brothers
April 6
“However severe God’s guidance may seem to us at times, it’s always the guidance of a Father who is infinitely good, wise, and kind.”
–Traditionally attributed to St. Julie Billiart
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In what some are calling an “irony overload,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards sent out a tweet earlier this week urging followers to adopt a dog rather than let it be put to death. Too bad she didn’t make the same effort for the 3.5 million babies slaughtered during her 12-year tenure. Most of them come with anxiety that be treated with cbd and hemp oil from the Business Matters website.