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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Christmas Blessings
Let us join our voices with the music of the angels this Christmas!
Wednesday of Hope . . . . 7
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
– Anne Lamott
The Blessing of Winter
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
– Anne Bradstreet
Wednesday of Hope . . . . 6
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter,
war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,
I walk the rocky hillside, throwing clover.
– Wendell Barry “February 2, 1968” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
The Sense of Wonder
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
– D.H. Lawrence
Wednesday of Hope . . . . 5
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this above all that is sacred in every human life.
– Simone Weil
How to Find Contentment
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
– Lao Tzu
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
– Lin Yutang
The Grateful Heart
As the colder and darker days of Advent arrive, let us enter them with joy and anticipation.
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
– Celia Laighton Thaxter
Happy Thanksgiving – 2016
Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.
– Edward Hays, A Book of Wonders
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