OPreach
Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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
Advent Waiting with Our Lady of Guadalupe
Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more? Let nothing else worry you, disturb you.
– words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego on Mount Tepeyac in 1531
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 Anxiety
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
― T.S. Eliot
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 for What We Will Never See
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never see them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their own highest hope.
– Rubem Alves, Tomorrow’s Child, quoted by Don Goergen, 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 for This Moment
Advent Waiting for This Moment
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
– Paulo Coelho
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
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
