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Advent Waiting with Our Lady of Guadalupe
Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting with Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Advent Waiting without Anxiety
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity― T.S. Eliot Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting for What We Will Never See
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never see them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting for What We Will Never See”
Advent Waiting for This Moment
Advent Waiting for This Moment Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. – Paulo Coelho 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 This Moment”
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 Amidst Celebration
Today we celebrate the 170th Anniversary of our congregation’s founding. Mother Mary Goemaere, OP, began, in San Francisco on December 6, 1850, the community of Dominican sisters who were to become The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael. We are most grateful! Love equally all kinds… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting Amidst Celebration”
Advent Waiting in Uncertainty
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts. – Elizabeth Elliot On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent Retreat Day with… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting in Uncertainty”
Advent Waiting to Learn Patience
Patience is not just the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. – JOYCE MEYER On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent Retreat Day with Mary Veronica Rolf. It is entitled, “The Story of Our Lives in Sacred Scripture.” To… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting to Learn Patience”
Advent Waiting to Revel in Mystery
It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation…and instead to revel in the mystery. – Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together On December 5th, Santa Sabina Center’s offers an Advent… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting to Revel in Mystery”
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