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Entering Natural Cathedrals

Posted on May 12, 2021 by opreach

Groves of redwoods…are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous light. A single banyan, each with its multitude of trunks, is like a temple or mosque—a living colonnade. But the metaphor should be the other way around. The cathedrals and mosques emulate the trees. The trees are innately holy.

– Colin Tudge, Secret Life of Trees

Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Hallowing Earth’s Name

Posted on May 9, 2021 by opreach

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Eternal Spirit — Earth-Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver; source of all that is and that shall be; Father and Mother of us all. Loving God, in whom is heaven. The hallowing of your name echoes through the universe!

– The New Zealand Prayer Book

Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Centering

Posted on May 7, 2021 by opreach

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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth.

– Rumi

Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Let Us See the Weeds

Posted on May 5, 2021 by opreach

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Weeds are transparently close to us. Yet we don’t see them. There is something about that, their being right in front of us and our not seeing them, that made me think this really needed to be looked at.

– Doug Burgess

Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

It is Time to Foster Renewal

Posted on May 2, 2021 by opreach

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

– Wendell Berry

Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Beauty in the Ordinary

Posted on April 30, 2021 by opreach

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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us, and see the beauty in ordinary things.

– Thomas Merton

To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Celebrating the Feast of Catherine of Siena – First Vespers

Posted on April 28, 2021 by opreach

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First Vespers are the Psalms that are recited in the evening before a feast. Tomorrow, April 29th is the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena. And April 28th just happens to be the anniversary of the day I made vows as a Dominican Sister of San Rafael . . . so this year I celebrate my 25th Jubilee. We (11 jubilations) celebrate Jubilee together as a community on July 24, 2021!

“All the way to heaven is heaven.”

– Catherine of Siena