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Posted on October 28, 2020
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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle – and my heart and thoughts. – Teilhard de Chardin This month, on October 17th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Where Is God?”
Category: Hope / HealingTags: colonia esperanza, dominican sisters of san rafael, dominican university of california, hope, ladder, mexico, painting, photo, photography, pierre teilhard de chardin, quote, santa sabina center retreat, sister carla, tijuana
Posted on September 17, 2020
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There was no mess anywhere and mess always provides an entry point. – Ann Belford Ulanov 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 “Entering through the Mess”
Category: SpiritualityTags: Ann Belford Ulanov, box springs, colonia, fence, juarez, mexico, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on September 16, 2020
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. – J.R.R. Tolkien 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 be related to groundlessness and… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – When Hope is Born”
Category: Hope / HealingTags: el paso, fence, hope, j.r.r. tolkien, juarez, mexico, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, texas, us border
Posted on December 13, 2015
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The universe unfolds in God, who fills it completely. Hence, there is a mystical meaning to be found in a leaf, in a mountain trail, in a dewdrop, in a poor person’s face.” – Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 233
Posted on December 21, 2013
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Birthing By Mark Unbehagen How does one birth peace. . . in a world that seems to prefer the profits of war? How can one birth hope. . . in a time when devastation is born of poverty and pandemic? How does one birth… Continue Reading “Are We Ready? It’s Almost Here!”
Category: AdventTags: advent, birthing, casa de cuna, child, child at play, education for justice, mark unbehagen, mexico, photo, photography, poetry, slide, tijuana
Posted on December 12, 2013
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Today is the Feast of La Virgen de Guadalupe. I share a stylized image from a photo that I took in the National Shrine in Washington, DC, and I had to include a YouTube video of the people in the cathedral in Mexico… Continue Reading “We Celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Posted on October 14, 2013
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I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. – Mother Teresa
Posted on April 22, 2013
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Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom
Posted on March 18, 2013
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This last week Sister Carla and I accompanied students from Dominican University on a service trip to Tijuana. We stayed at Casa de los Pobres, served the poor there, painted a house, held a carnival for the children in another colonia, and had moving… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime (iPhoneography)”
Category: Social JusticeTags: breakfast, casa de los pobres, dominican university, homeless, iphoneography, lunhctime, mexico, photo, photography, service, service trip, tijuana, weekly photo challenge
Posted on October 28, 2012
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We conveniently forget what we have been taught. For we read in Deuteronomy 10:19: So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land.” And our President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, Remember, remember always, that all… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign”
Category: Social JusticeTags: bishop james tamayo, compassionate immigration reform, deuteronomy 10:19, dominican sisters of san rafael, el paso, fdr, foreign, foreigners, franklin delano roosevelt, juarez, mexico, photo, photography, postaday
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