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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
How Do You Experience Worship?
Enjoying the Seasons
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.– Yoko Ono
What Do You Bring to the World?
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it’s what they bring to the world that really counts.– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Courage Not to Fear
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.Sarah Williams from “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” in Best Loved Poems of the American People
Just What Is Freedom?
Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
What to Do when Feeling Overwhelmed
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
– Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
How to Handle Rain
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Poet Speaks Again
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the book of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.
– Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land
Sacrament
The created world is the primordial sacrament.
– Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
Wisdom from the Poet
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
– Wendell Berry
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