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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Just the Beginning
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning–not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
- Frederick Buechner
The Word Manifest
The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
- Hildegard of Bingen
True Treasure
Treasure this day and treasure yourself truly, neither will ever happen again.
- Ray Bradbury
True Generosity
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus
Why Rainbows?
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
- Maya Angelou
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We Are Part of One Another
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
- Thomas Merton
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First Sunday of Advent
Maybe we should start making Advent lists – they’d be like Christmas lists, but instead of listing things we want Santa to bring us we could write down things we want Christ to break in and take from us. In the hopes he could pickpocket the stupid junk in our houses or abscond with our self-loathing or resentment… maybe break in in the middle of the night and take off with our compulsive eating or our love of money. That’s how God works sometimes. Not through the things we are prepared for but through the things we don’t expect.
- Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints
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The Work of Gratefulness
In each of us there is a spark that can reverse the trends of violence and depression spiraling within us and in the world around us. By setting in motion the spiral of gratefulness we begin the journey toward peace and joy.
- David Steindl-Rast
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Nature
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
- Oliver Sacks
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Our Success Depends on Others
No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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