January 3, 2021: Epiphanies and Paradigm Shifts with Marie Dennis

2021-01-02

Preaching for the Epiphany, Marie Dennis offers a reflection on "the kind of global paradigm shift that the arrival of the Magi portends": "As the global community struggles to respond to the crises of our time, a fundamental shift is needed from systems of exploitation and domination toward a new order of universal communion toward which this feast, this manifestation of the universal inbreaking of the reign of God points. Laudato Si’ calls it an ecological conversion, a shift to a new normal i...

Preaching for the Epiphany, Marie Dennis offers a reflection on "the kind of global paradigm shift that the arrival of the Magi portends":

"As the global community struggles to respond to the crises of our time, a fundamental shift is needed from systems of exploitation and domination toward a new order of universal communion toward which this feast, this manifestation of the universal inbreaking of the reign of God points. Laudato Si’ calls it an ecological conversion, a shift to a new normal in which the infinite worth of every person is honored, the earth is healed, and the primordial unity of all beings is recognized."

Marie Dennis is senior advisor to the secretary general of Pax Christi International. She was co-president of Pax Christi from 2007 to 2019 and serves on the executive committee of Pax Christi’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative.

Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/01032021 to learn more about Marie, to read her preaching text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.

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