Advent Waiting to Revel in Mystery

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation…and instead to revel in the mystery.

– Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

Photo from Santa Sabina photo archives

On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent Retreat Day with Mary Veronica Rolf. It is entitled, “The Story of Our Lives in Sacred Scripture.” 

To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Advent Waiting to Console and REassure

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

Photograph by Margaret Diener, OP

On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent Retreat Day with Mary Veronica Rolf. It is entitled, “The Story of Our Lives in Sacred Scripture.” 

To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Advent Waiting to Renew Inner Strength

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

– Paul Brunton, Meditations for People in Crisis

On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent Retreat Day with Mary Veronica Rolf. It is entitled, “The Story of Our Lives in Sacred Scripture.” 

To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Beginning the Ascent

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Grace Abounding

O grace abounding, through which I presumed
to set my eyes on the Eternal Light
so long that I spent all my sight on it!
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Follow Your Own Path

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk. 
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

This Sweet Life

The experience of this sweet life.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Happy Thanksgiving!

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Who Made Me?

Eternal love made me.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Heading toward the Sea

My course is set for an uncharted sea.
– Dante Alighieri

Pacific Ocean

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page