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In the Company of the
Poor, by Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutitierrez. Orbis Books, 2015.
Partners in ministry among the poor, Paul and Guttierrez, hold conversations on ways to help the poor on the path from oppression to liberation. They attempt to answer the question why so many billions live in abject poverty. They address gays and straight persons, blacks and they claim whites, and those who do not boast of any color or identity.
The table of Contents contain these chapters: A Doctor’s Tribute to Gustavo Guttierrez; God Loves You; Health, Healing, and Social Justice; Conversion, a Requirement for Solidarity; Conversion in the Time of Cholera; The Option for the Poor Arises from Faith in Christ; An Interview with Paul Farmer and Gustavo Guttierrez.
In a section on Accompaniment in
Action, Guttiererez wrote: “As Micah puts it, he has shown us, O Man, what is good and what does God require of you but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” There is an urgency in this message as we walk together with God and with one another, in search of justice and mercy. Accompaniment has a basic meaning, to go somewhere with someone, to break bread together, and to be present on the journey with a beginning and an
end.
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St. Margaret of Cortona: (1247-97). May 16.
Margaret was born of farming parents in Laviano, Tuscany. Her mother died when Margaret was seven; life with her stepmother was so difficult that Margaret moved out. For nine years she lived with Arsenio, though they were not married, and she bore him a son. In those years, she had doubts about her situation. Somewhat like Saint Augustine, she prayed for purity—but not just yet.
One day she was waiting for Arsenio and was instead met by his dog. The animal led Margaret into the forest where she found Arsenio murdered. This crime shocked Margaret into a life of penance. She and her son returned to Laviano, where she was not well received by her stepmother. They then went to Cortona, where her son eventually became a friar.
In 1277, three years after her conversion, Margaret became a Franciscan tertiary. Under the direction of her confessor, who sometimes had to order her to moderate her self-denial, she pursued a life of prayer and penance at Cortona. There she established a hospital and founded a congregation of tertiary sisters. The poor and humble Margaret was, like Francis, devoted to the Eucharist and to the passion of Jesus. These devotions fueled her
great charity and drew sinners to her for advice and inspiration. She was canonized in 1728.
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