SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
“So many criticize and say that everything is going wrong. But that’s not what the Christian is called to do; instead, he is called to deal with it, to get his or her hands dirty: first of all, as St. Paul told us, to pray, and then not to engage in idle chattering – idle chatter is a plague – but to promote good, and to build peace and justice in truth. This, too, is apostolic zeal; it is the proclamation of the Gospel; and this is Christian beatitude: ‘blessed are the peacemakers’.”
Pope Francis
It’s the birthday of John Coltrane, born in Hamlet, North Carolina (1926). When asked to describe his style, he said, “I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.” He played with Johnny Hodges, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis before forming his own quartet in 1961.
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 