Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as… Continue Reading “Watching the Eternal Show”
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that led to my freedom, I know if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I would still be in prison.” Nelson Mandela To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats… Continue Reading “Forgiveness Opens Prison Doors”
To be a human is to live in calamity. – Ling Xing, a Zen woman ancestor This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Grounding Ourselves When There is No Ground: A Buddhist-Christian Perspective on Living in Interesting Times.” So this month’s quotes will… Continue Reading “Living in Calamity”
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Hopefulness Is Not Romantic”
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. – Mary Jean Irion, Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
There is nothing besides the presence of God. Being itself is derived from God and the presence of the Creator remains in each created thing. – Menachem Nahum of Chernobyl