Change

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.

– Octavia E. Butler

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Hello, Sun in my Face!

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

– Mary Oliver

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Let Us Change I for We

As Malcolm X put it, “When we change the ‘I’ for the ‘We,’ even Illness becomes Wellness.”

– Joanna Macy

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There Is Always Beauty

I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

– Anne Frank

DuPage River – Morton Arboretum

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The End Is Where We Start

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

– T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets

Starting today, January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center offers 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

Darkness Reminds Us of Light

And we thank Thee that darkness reminds us of light.
O Light Invisible, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory!

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

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 for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Light – Dappled with Shadow

We thank Thee for our little light, that is dappled with shadow.

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

“For Dappled Things” by Sister Adele Rowland, OP

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 for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

We Thank Thee for Light

We thank Thee for the lights that we have kindled,
The light of altar and of sanctuary;
Small lights of those who meditate at midnight
And lights directed through the coloured pans of windows
And light reflected from the polished stone,
The gilded carven wood, the coloured fresco.|
Our gaze is submarine, our eyes look upward
And see the light that fractures through unquiet water.
We see the light but see not whence it comes.|
O Light invisible, we glorify Thee!

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

Altar at Santa Sabina Center

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 for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-pag

O Light Invisible

O Light Invisible, we praise Thee!
Too bright for mortal vision.
O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less;
The eastern light our spires touch at morning,
The light that slants upon our western doors at evening,
The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,
Moon light and start light, owl and moth light,
Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade.
O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

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 for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Grateful for the Light We Have

Seek not to count the future waves of Time;
But be ye satisfied that you have light
Enough to take your step and find your foothold,

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

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 for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page