Sunday, September 30, 2012

A tad more on being prophets

I came across a quote this afternoon, one I found my self desperately wishing I had come across earlier, while preparing my homily for this Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is something that Henri Nouwen said a few weeks before his death back in 1996:

"Often we praise prophets after they are dead. Are we willing to be prophets while we are alive?"

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