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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Gratitude Brings Consolation
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Fullness of Life
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
– David Steindl-Rast in Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit
I would suggest that one of the most important habits to cultivate is that of Gratitude. Let’s not let the opportunities to be grateful and say “thank you” pass us by!
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
– William Arthur Ward
When and Where to be Grateful
Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward I am filled with vision. Looking upwards I am filled with strength. Looking within I discover peace.
– Apache Prayer
Amazing Words from Etty Hillesum
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
– Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
The Attracting Power of Gratitude
Feeling grateful towards someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
– Christiane Northrup
The Power of Gratefulness
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
– David Steindl-Rast in Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
November – A Month of Thanksgiving
For all that has been, Thank you.
For all that is to come, Yes!
– Dag Hammarskjold
Dominican Saint Martin de Porres
Saint Marin de Porres was well known for healing. He, a mestizo, never forgot his heritage and tended to the needs of the poor indigenous people of Lima. Once, after having been scolded by his superior for bringing an injured man to his room in the priory, he replied:
Forgive my error, and please instruct me, for I did not know that the precept of obedience took precedence over that of charity.
All Souls Day
Every moment and every event of every [person’s] life on earth plants something in [the] soul.
– Thomas Merton
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