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This Nun Tweets A Daily Prayer To Trump For Him To ‘Grow In Humility’

 

“It’s been the hardest spiritual practice I’ve ever committed to,” Sister Susan Francois told The New York Times.

 

 By Nina Golgowski 

 

A Catholic nun has opened up about her daily ritual of tweeting at President Donald Trump with prayers for him to “grow in humility” and “do good and be kind in return,” calling it “the hardest spiritual practice I’ve ever committed to.”

“I usually just sit for a little while and see what comes,” Sister Susan Francois told The New York Times. The New Jersey-based nun is with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace religious order.

As of Sunday, the 46-year-old has racked up more than 660 prayers to Trump’s official @POTUS account since shortly after his Inauguration.

Sister Susan Francois, CSJP‏ @susanfrancois

Dear @POTUS, 662 days later still praying you experience goodness & kindness and choose to do good & be kind in return. A kind or thoughtful word goes a long way, & a prudential choice of words is less likely to wound, spark conflict or cause markets to drop. Praying 

“When I sent the first tweet, it was purely for myself. I didn’t expect it to make a big splash,” she told the Times of her ritual, which she said she began as a “calming spiritual practice” for herself to fight all the negativity. “But [the] fact that it was public and that I committed to it every day means I have to do it, even if I don’t want to. It’s been the hardest spiritual practice I’ve ever committed to.”

Francois isn’t the only nun or religious devotee to pray for the president, but she has stood out thanks to her daily dedication and use of Twitter, which is Trump’s own preferred method of communicating.

Sister Susan Francois, CSJP‏ @susanfrancois

Sister Susan Francois, CSJP Retweeted Pope Francis

Dear @POTUS. 661 days later still praying for you as a leader and as a human being to grow in humility and the ability/capacity/willingness to focus on the common good and peace of all. #PopeFrancis has some good advice for all of us ...

Sister Susan Francois, CSJP added,

Pope FrancisVerified account @Pontifex

This Advent, make yourself small, make yourself humble, make yourself a servant of others, and the Lord will give you the ability to understand how to make peace. #SantaMarta

8:01 AM - 4 Dec 2018

In 2017, she wrote an article for the Catholic news site Global Sisters Report about her online activism, saying that she is “taking advantage of new technology to stay engaged in the midst of my busy life.”

“Am I under the misconception that he is reading my tweets or that they will have an impact on his policies? No. But I am less distracted by the crazy, claiming my voice & speaking out in a way that models and points to the world Jesus calls us to build,” she tweeted on Sunday, linking to her article.

Sister Susan Francois, CSJP‏ @susanfrancois

Am I under the misconception that he is reading my tweets or that they will have an impact on his policies? No. But I am less distracted by the crazy, claiming my voice & speaking out in a way that models and points to the world Jesus calls us to build.

That’s not to say she doesn’t hope her words will have an impact or get attention.

Francois told the Times that she specifically tweets to @POTUS, instead of Trump’s more popular and widely used @realDonaldTrump handle, because that account is archived by the federal government. Knowing that, she said she hopes her outreach to him is archived too, for history’s sake.

“From my academic research on resistance as a response to injustice, it is important for consistency and for history to know that ordinary people didn’t look away,” she told the Times. “I wanted it to be a record of history that a Catholic sister wanted to tweet a nonviolent prayer at the president.”

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If the Sister's prayers can change Donald Trump to a true humanitarian, I will start going to church and praying!

5 Bible Museum Dead Sea Scrolls Exposed As Fakes

Fragments were forged with the intention of fooling wealthy American evangelical Christians — like the founder of Washington’s Museum of the Bible, Steve Green.

By David Barden 

Five fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the Museum of the Bible’s most prized artifacts, were exposed as fakes on Monday and pulled from displays.

The museum, the brainchild of evangelical Christian businessman Steve Green, opened last year in Washington near the National Mall. The pieces, subjected to scientific tests in Germany, were deemed to have “characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin,” the museum said in a statement.

“Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artifacts,” chief museum curatorial officer Jeffrey Kloha said.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a series of fragments from approximately 930 manuscripts discovered near the Dead Sea in modern Israel during the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Doubts were raised as to the authenticity of the fragments prior to the museum’s opening. 

Dating back to the late third century B.C. and first century A.D., the scrolls provided academics with insights into Judaism at the time Christianity was born.

Doubts were raised as to the authenticity of the fragments held by the museum prior to its opening, due to a soaring increase in forgeries designed to fool wealthy American evangelical Christians, such as Green.

Experts estimate that as many as 70 forged fragments of scrolls have been traded on the antiquities market since 2002, according to CNN.

The museum said it would swap the fakes with three other fragments (but even those may not be real).

“Exhibit labels will continue to inform guests that there have been questions raised about the authenticity of these fragments, and that further research will be conducted,” the museum said.