And Martin replied: ‘Compassion, my dear Brother, is preferable to cleanliness. Consider that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed sheets, but with even a torrent of tears I could never wash the stain from my soul that harshness toward the unfortunate would bring.’ ”
Arthur M. Granger, Vie du Bienheureux Martin de Porrès, 1941
“I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
Martin Luther King Jr, Strength To Love
“Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and attending to the sick can be a prayer, if it is offered to God.”
Martin de Porrès
“What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute—the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words—we can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.”
Dorothy Day
If you do good things for other people, in expectation of thanks or recognition or some favor in return, you may often be disappointed, because gratitude is as rare a thing as compassion.
But if you do all things well, and love your neighbor not for their own sake but for the sake of God's mercy for us, you will never be disappointed, and your life itself may over time become a continual prayer.
Stocks were weak again today in continuation selling from yesterday's 'Fed Hawkish Pivot.'
Gold and silver were lower, although silver showed some resilience.
The Dollar rocketed higher, almost to the 13 handle.
VIX fell.
Non-Farm Payrolls Report tomorrow.
Good news is bad news, yada yada.
Have a pleasant evening.
