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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Blessing that Flows through Everything
The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything we touch, the more our own touch will bring blessing.
– David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart
Wednesday of Hope – A Bridge or Plank to Hope
When the bridge is gone, the narrowest plank becomes precious.
-Hungarian Proverb
Strength of the New Day
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Wednesday of Hope – A Full or Empty Heart?
Why fill the heart with hopes? Leave it empty for God.
– Robert Mertens
One Way to Bring a Happy New Year
Replace judgment with curiosity.
– Lynn Nottage
Wednesday of Hope – Make Hope Happen
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
– Barack Obama
Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas
We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us.
– Meister Eckhart, 1260-1328, German Dominican Mystic
Christmas Eve – Receiving God
It is good for a person to receive God
Into himself or herself
And I call this receptivity the work of a virgin.But it is better
When God becomes fruitful within a person.
For becoming fruitful as a result of a gift is the
Only gratitude for the gift.I call such a person a wife
And in this sense the term wife is the noblest
Term we can give the soul,
It is far nobler than virgin.Every day
Such a person bears fruit a hundred times
Or a thousand times
Or countless times
Giving birth and becoming fruitful
Out of the most noble foundation of all.Tend only to this birth in you
And you will find there
All goodness and all consolation,
All delight,
All being and truth.~ Meister Eckhart, OP
Wednesday of Hope – Recognizing Possibilities
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.
– Thomas Merton
The Patience to Wait
Patience is not just the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
– Joyce Meyer
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