Advent Waiting for This Moment

Advent Waiting for This Moment

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. 

– Paulo Coelho

Photo by Margaret Diener, OP

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 while Listening

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. 

– Fran Lebowitz

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 What is Waiting

The best things in life are often sitting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone. 

– Karen Salmansohn

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 Amidst Celebration

Today we celebrate the 170th Anniversary of our congregation’s founding. Mother Mary Goemaere, OP, began, in San Francisco on December 6, 1850, the community of Dominican sisters who were to become The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael. We are most grateful!

Love equally all kinds of people.  Your love for all participates in the love of God.

– Mother Mary Goemaere, OP

Photo by Shook Chung

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 Uncertainty

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.

– Elizabeth Elliot

Photo 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 Learn Patience

Sister Susannah Malarkey, OP

Patience is not just the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

– JOYCE MEYER

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 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