January 21, 2015

  • A girl herds goats through the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya during the summer of 2011. Considered the world's largest refugee settlement at the time, Dadaab swelled with tens of thousands of people who fled the drought in Somalia. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

“A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.”

- St. Hildegard von Bingen, OSB (1098-1179), German abbess who was gifted in writing music and poetry and wrote and illustrated a number of theological and medicinal texts, from a letter to Elisabeth of Schönau, c. 1152