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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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God’s Pardon
God is more willing to pardon than we are to sin. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Our Connection to Nature
“The need is for the connection to nature within ourselves; only then can we understand how to act toward nature outside ourselves. Along with the obvious crimes our culture is committing against the natural world, we would be wise to remember that the main… Continue Reading “Our Connection to Nature”
Intimacy with the Natural World
“Too many of us lack intimacy with the natural world and with our souls, and consequently we are doing untold damage to both.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Our Moral Duty
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.… Continue Reading “Our Moral Duty”
I Want My Blood to Become Sap
I don’t want to be remembered. I want my blood to become sap, my bones to become roots, my breath to become the wind. Even wanting is not so important. Even wanting will become something new. – Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople To learn about and/or… Continue Reading “I Want My Blood to Become Sap”
Thinking Well
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world. – Miyamoto Mushashi 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 8… Continue Reading “Thinking Well”
Enter the Forest
The forest is not made of abstractions. It is not even made of separate, interacting objects. The forest is instead made of relationship. – David George Haskell To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Naming
“… I wonder what it would be like to go into a forest where nothing has a name… if we started all over, giving names, would any fact about the forest compel us to name the same units? Would we label trees? Or instead… Continue Reading “Naming”
What the Trees Say
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Gift of Earth
“To all Earth’s creatures God has given the broad Earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a… Continue Reading “Gift of Earth”
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