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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Seed
“The seed holds a very great secret—it never gets old. It is the eternal YES to life.”
– Anat Vaughan-Lee
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
What Is Hope?
“Hope is what sits by a window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there is not one ounce of proof in tonight’s black, black sky that it can possibly come.”
– Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Gardening
“If not ignored, nature will cultivate in the gardener a sense of well-being and peace. The gardener may find deeper meaning in life by paying attention to the parables of the garden. Nature teaches quiet lessons to the gardener who chooses to live within the paradigm of the garden.”
– Norman H. Hansen, The Worth of Gardening
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Why Does the Bird Sing?
“A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.”
– Joan Walsh Anglund
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Our Easter Task
“Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
We Widen our Circle of Compassion
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others — what and whom we can work with, and how — becomes wider.
– Pema Chödrön
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Echoes
Eternal Spirit — Earth-Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver; source of all that is and that shall be; Father and Mother of us all. Loving God, in whom is heaven. The hallowing of your name echoes through the universe!
– The New Zealand Prayer Book
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
What Is Religion?
“Religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.”
– Karen Armstrong
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
The Springtime
Yes! The springtime needs you.
Often a star is waiting for you to notice it.
A wave rolls toward you from the distant past.
Or as you walk under an open window,
the sound of a violin calls out to you.
All this is a mission.
But can you recognize it?
Or are you constantly distracted by your expectations?
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Spring
Spring is coming, let me be like the cherry tree, renewed and fruitful.
– Henry Jamison
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
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