Thought of the Week
“Religious Life in America: A New Day Dawning”
—Sean D. Sammon, F.M.S.
How can you tell that night has ended?
One day a rabbi asked his students,
“How can you tell that night has ended
and the day is returning?”
One student suggested,
“When you can see clearly that an animal
in the distance is a lion and not a leopard.”
“No,” said the rabbi.
Another said,
“When you can tell that a tree bears figs and
not peaches?”
“No,” said the rabbi. “It
is when you can look on the face
of another person and see that woman or man
is your sister or brother. Because until
you are able to do so, no matter what time of day it is,
it is still night.”
--Sean D. Sammon, Religious Life in America: A New Day Dawning, New York 2002, p. 95.