"We sing because cruelty has no name / But we can name its destiny / We sing because the child because everything / Because the future because the people / We sing because the survivors / And our dead want us to sing"  --Mario Benedetti, translation of “Por Qué Cantamos”

“As I reflect on this latest American massacre, I keep returning to the questions: Who are we as a nation if we do not act to protect our children? What do we love more: our instruments of death or our future?”  --Cardinal Blase Cupich (Archdiocese of Chicago) Quote posted on Vatican News Twitter Feed May 25, 2022

"The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai. The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them.”  --Cardinal Blase Cupich (Archdiocese of Chicago) Quote posted on Vatican News Twitter Feed May 25, 2022

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."  --George Orwell

Be Alone with God

"Solitude and silence can never be separated from the call to unceasing prayer. If solitude were primarily an escape from a busy joy, and silence primarily an escape from a noisy milieu, they could easily become very self-centered forms of asceticism. But solitude and silence are for prayer. The Desert Fathers did not think of solitude as being alone, but as being alone with God. They did not think of silence as not speaking but as listening to God. Solitude and silence are the context within which prayer is practiced."--Henri Nouwen

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world . . . would do this, it would change the earth."  --William Faulkner

"For you, the gun-wounded, the gunned down, / and the loved ones who were left behind, / we speak in love / and we don’t go quietly."  --Da’Shawn Mosley, “In the Mourning”