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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Kindness
Be kind whenever possible. it’s always possible.
– Dalai Lama
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Miracle of Oneness
All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
– Kabir
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True Miracles
After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Defining Miracles
A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.
– Kate Baestrup
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What Is Hope?
…hope is openness for surprise.
– David Steindl-Rast
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Entering Natural Cathedrals
Groves of redwoods…are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous light. A single banyan, each with its multitude of trunks, is like a temple or mosque—a living colonnade. But the metaphor should be the other way around. The cathedrals and mosques emulate the trees. The trees are innately holy.
– Colin Tudge, Secret Life of Trees
Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Hallowing Earth’s Name
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
Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Centering
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth.
– Rumi
Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Let Us See the Weeds
Weeds are transparently close to us. Yet we don’t see them. There is something about that, their being right in front of us and our not seeing them, that made me think this really needed to be looked at.
– Doug Burgess
Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
It is Time to Foster Renewal
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
– Wendell Berry
Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Sisters Pat Farrell, OP, and Margaret Galiardi, OP: “Body of Buddha, Body of Christ: A Christian Zen Retreat Exploring Deep Ecology.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
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