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Posted on March 31, 2024
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Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.– Rainer Maria Rilke To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: EasterTags: easter, flowers, illinois, lilacia park, lombard, nature, photo, photography, quote, rainer maria rilke, santa sabina center retreat, tulips
Posted on March 24, 2024
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The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.– Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: butterfly, chicago botanic gardens, cone flower, echinacea, flowers, henri nouwen, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, the wounded healer
Posted on March 20, 2024
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The Earth is generous with us — and forgiving. We can be the same with each other.– Robin Wall Kimmerer To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, illinois, lilac, lilacia park, lombard, nature, photo, photography, quote, robin wall kimmerer, santa sabina center
Posted on November 26, 2023
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There are many things to be grateful “for” but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing. – Michael Mahoney During the month of… Continue Reading “The Mystery of Gratefulness”
Posted on September 17, 2023
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Aart Van Der Leeuw To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: aart van der leeuw, flowers, illinois, lilac, lilacia park, lombard, mystery, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on July 23, 2023
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In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger. – Kobayashi Issa To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the Dominican Tradition from August… Continue Reading “Cherry Blossoms”
Posted on March 31, 2023
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Yes! The springtime needs you.Often a star is waiting for you to notice it.A wave rolls toward you from the distant past.Or as you walk under an open window,the sound of a violin calls out to you.All this is a mission.But can you recognize… Continue Reading “The Springtime”
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, illinois, kim stafford, lilacia park, lilacs, lombard, nature, photo, photography, poem, quote, rainer maria rilke, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on February 26, 2023
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May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers. – Shantideva To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Posted on August 19, 2022
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[T]he divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. – Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe (2009) To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and… Continue Reading “Listening to the Divine through the Natural World”
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, garden, lilacia park, lilacs, lombard, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, the sacred universe, thomas berry, trees
Posted on August 17, 2022
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A garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.”…Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. Robin Wall Kimmerer To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, garden, lilacia park, lombard, nature, photo, photography, quote, robin wall kimmerer, santa sabina center, santa sabina center retreat, tulips
