Posts by Joe Colletti
Secretaries of Veteran Affairs and HUD Announced they are Mobilizing (their) strength to do Everything in (their) power to end Veteran Homelessness and California Should Announce the Same
California’s 44 Continuums of Care Should Echo the Announcement and do Everything in their Power to Finish Ending Veteran Homelessness in their Jurisdictions Local Data Throughout California Reveals the Goal of Ending Veteran Homelessness is Within Reach for Many Continuums of Care (see map below) In a recent joint statement on ending veteran homelessness, HUD…
Read MoreIt is Time for the State of California, Counties, Cities, and Continuums of Care to Collectively Prepare to Solve Homelessness in a Post-Pandemic Era
The Time Has Come to Design a Flexible Pool of Funds to Rapidly Respond to Homelessness Unlike Ever Before –See Recommendations for Next Steps Below– It is time to boost a “whatever it takes” approach to house homeless households by designing a flexible pool of funds to respond rapidly to the homeless experiences of individuals…
Read MoreThe Coming Stroke of Midnight that will Transition Your Day, Year, and Decade
At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws. –Psalm 119.62– The stroke of Midnight between December 31st and January 1st will transition your day, year, and decade to another day, year, and decade. We will only experience such a unique stroke of Midnight as many times as the number of decades…
Read MoreChristmas Beyond Christmas
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year –Ebenezer Scrooge– In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens describes Ebenezer Scrooge’s encounters with three ghosts—Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. After the third encounter, a resolved Scrooge, cries out “I…
Read MoreCommemorating the Lunar Mission of Apollo 11: A Cosmic Call for Contemplation, an Act of Consecrated Communion, and a Reflective First Step on Behalf of Humanity
Hundreds of millions of people in nearly every part of the globe were watching the dim, blurry, and shadowy figures of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as they were being televised while walking on the moon fifty years ago, this very day, July 20. Aldrin’s Call for Contemplation After landing the Apollo Lunar…
Read MoreThe Tender Touch of Taps: the Bugle Call
. . . how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct? -1 Corinthians 14:7b- The distinct 24-note graceful and grieving bugle call known as Taps has stirred deep feelings of sadness, sorrow, and sting in most, if not all, of us. Members of the U.S. military salute from…
Read More“To be Willing to March into Hell for a Heavenly Cause”
This past week we commemorated the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) who would have turned 90 years old this month if he had not met an untimely death just over 50 years ago. The lyrics of the memorable song The Impossible Dream contains inspiring phrases that can easily be applied to the motivations…
Read MoreAdvent, Apollo 8, and The Word of God Proclaimed from the Heavens
-During the most watched television broadcast at the time the astronauts read the first 10 verses of the Bibleduring their final orbit around the moon- Joe Colletti, PhDSociety of Urban MonksDecember 2018 Nearly 50 years ago, as the season of Advent ended on Christmas Eve 1968, inhabitants of the earth heard the word of God…
Read MoreThe Advent Moon
And God said,“Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.”(Genesis 1. 14 – 15) In…
Read MoreCommemorating Advent and the 50-Year Ago Christmas Eve Adventure of Apollo 8: A Complimentary Commemoration for Contemplation of Civilization Part III in a Series
Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image, in our likeness . . .” and “created them; male and female” and“blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth. . .”(Genesis 1. 26 – 28) Apollo 8 crew saw humanity unlike ever before on December 24, Christmas…
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