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First Sunday of Advent
Maybe we should start making Advent lists – they’d be like Christmas lists, but instead of listing things we want Santa to bring us we could write down things we want Christ to break in and take from us. In the hopes he could… Continue Reading “First Sunday of Advent”
Strange and Wonderful
“It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go… Continue Reading “Strange and Wonderful”
Trough
There is a trough in waves,A low spotWhere horizon disappearsAnd only skyAnd waterAre our company. – Judy Brown, From the poem “Trough” – book The Sea Accepts All Rivers Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive… Continue Reading “Trough”
Landscape as Theophany
“To experience the landscape as a theophany is to take seriously the way the divine can be revealed through nature and through created things. It means we can join with all of the elements and creatures in singing God’s praise.” Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s… Continue Reading “Landscape as Theophany”
A Spiritual Journey
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,no matter how longbut only by a spiritual journey,a journey of one inch,very arduous and humbling and joyful,by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,and learn to be at home. – Wendell… Continue Reading “A Spiritual Journey”
The Field of Meeting
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.” – Rumi… Continue Reading “The Field of Meeting”
Joanna Macy on Gratitude
“In times of turmoil and danger, gratitude helps to steady and ground us. It brings us into presence, and our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world.” – Joanna Macy To learn about Santa Sabina Center’s online retreats and… Continue Reading “Joanna Macy on Gratitude”
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… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting for What is Waiting”
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 On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent Retreat Day with Mary Veronica Rolf. It… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting to Console and REassure”
Wednesday of Hope – Letting Go of Results
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Letting Go of Results”
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