William Stringfellow: the “Giant Triplets” and the Communion of the Saints

A year before his martyrdom, Martin Luther King, Jr. identified the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and extreme materialism, as demanding a revolution of values. William Stringfellow, in his discerning of signs and spirits, also identified them among the reigning powers of that era, as indeed our own. As an exercise in practical theology, this retreat will contemplate a spiritual, personal, and political struggle with these principalities even in their new guises. This anticipates a work of intercession on behalf of Earth’s creatures – human and more – one joined by a cloud of kin and witnesses on whom we may learn to rely. On the Mountaintop we can listen. In our days together we’ll pray to nurture this community of discernment and movement formation.

Artwork credit to Br. Robert Lentz, OFM and Fr. William H. McNichols.