Strange how yesterday I posted about Cardinal Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's political beatitudes and this morning I was reading Magnificat and today's meditation was by Cardinal Francis-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan. BTW, he is now Venerable.
What impressed me in his meditation was what he said about misery. Remember he was 13 years a prisoner in Vietnam, 9 in solitary.
Jesus comes to meet human misery. Saving us, he made his Gospel and his grace the renewing principle of the world and, above all, of humanity in all areas of existence: private and public, cultural and social, political and economic...
I think of my "cloistered brothers." The world may scoff that they found God in prison, but they were too busy to give Him a thought before their incarceration.
What impressed me in his meditation was what he said about misery. Remember he was 13 years a prisoner in Vietnam, 9 in solitary.
Jesus comes to meet human misery. Saving us, he made his Gospel and his grace the renewing principle of the world and, above all, of humanity in all areas of existence: private and public, cultural and social, political and economic...
I think of my "cloistered brothers." The world may scoff that they found God in prison, but they were too busy to give Him a thought before their incarceration.
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