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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Advent Waiting while Looking Deeply
Look deeply into your life.
Search out the hidden things
within your circumstances.
The beauty is there.
Comfort and forgiveness are available.
Hope is always waiting
for you to find.
– William Martin, The Sage’s Tao Te Ching
At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting with Gratitude
Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting for All that Is Waiting for You
Excerpt from “Everything is Waiting for You” by David Whyte
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink,
the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last.
All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves.
Everything is waiting for you.
– David Whyte, Everything is Waiting for You
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Advent Waiting in the Broken World
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended
Not with time, as they say, but with intention,
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
– L.R. Knost
At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting without Fear
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
– Maya Angelou
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Advent Waiting in Faith, Love, and Hope
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning.
The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry,
The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy
Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony
Of death and birth.
– T.S. Eliot, excerpt from “East Coker”, Four Quartets
Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting at the Threshold
The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.
– John O’Donohue
At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting in Hope
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
T.S. Eliot, The Little Gidding
Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting while We Weep
No wonder the prophet weeps yet –
We begin again but not innocent…
And we feebly watch for you and wait.
Teach us how to weep while we wait.
and how to hope while we weep,
and how to care while we hope.
– Walter Brueggemann, “Teach Us How to Weep” in Awed to heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting in Darkness
On the Feast of St. Lucy
After the kingfisher’s wing
Has answered light to light,
And is silent,
The light is still
At the still point of the turning world.
― T.S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”
A Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
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