The Human Brain

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. 

George Jessel

Teaching and Community

• “To teach is to create a space where the community of truth is practiced”
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• Parker Palmer

Teaching

“To teach is to create a space where obedience to truth is practiced”

• Parker Palmer

Risk

"You just heard in the Gospel that one must not love oneself so much as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life...Whoever out of love for Christ gives themselves to the service of others will live, like the grain of wheat that dies-but only apparently. If it did not die, it would remain alone. Only in undoing itself does it produce the harvest."

Oscar Romero

thou shalt not kill

"I want to make a special appeal to soldiers, national guardsmen and policemen: each of you is one of us. The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear a man telling you to kill, remember God's words, 'thou shalt not kill.' No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression."

Oscar Romero

Preaching

"To try to preach without referring to the history one preaches in is not to preach the gospel. Many would like a preaching so spiritualistic that it leaves sinners unbothered and does not term idolaters those who kneel before money and power. A preaching that says nothing of the sinful environment in which the gospel is reflected upon is not the gospel."

Oscar Romero

God's Word

"I study the Word of God to be read on Sunday. I look around me, at my people. I use this Word to shed light on my surroundings...Naturally, the idols and idolatries of the earth are irritated by this Word, and they would like very much to remove it, to silence it, to kill it. Let happen what God wills, but God's Word, as St. Paul said, is not tied down."

Oscar Romero

The drive to write

“Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what”

Julia Cameron

Proclaiming the Gospel

In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which might conform us to the world's way of thinking (cf. Rom 12:2). We must be in the world but not of the world (cf. Jn 15:19; 17:16), drawing our strength from Christ, who by his Death and Resurrection has overcome the world (cf. Jn 16:33).

Pope John Paul II