Our Journey Demands It

Let us go, for the length of our journey demands it.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Acadia National Park

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

The Love that Moves the Stars

God is the love that moves the sun and stars.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVII, lines 28–30 (tr. Sinclair). 

Sunset from Cadillac Mountain

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

God’s Will Is Our Peace

And [God’s] will is our peace; this is the sea
To which is moving onward whatsoever
It doth create, and all that nature makes.

– Dante Alighieri, Canto III, lines 85–87 (tr. Longfellow).

Bailey Island, Maine

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

We Came to See

We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Behold the Grass

Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.

– Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Radiancies of the Perfected Vision

These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer what it sees.
― Dante Alighieri, The Paradiso

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Universe Resembling God

Among themselves all things
Have order; and from hence the form, which makes
The universe resemble God.

― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Assorted pottery in Orvieto

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Light in the Beyond

A light there is in the beyond which makes the Creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding Him finds peace.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

 

Rose Window in Chartres Cathedral

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Be a Solid Tower

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. 
– Dante Alighieri

Carcassone Tower

This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Seeking God in the Dark

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.
– Teilhard de Chardin

This month, on October 17th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Teilhard the Mystic: Exploring the Five Circles of the Divine Milieu,” with Ruth Droege, OP. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Teilhard de Chardin.

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