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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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Wednesday of Hope – Hope Amidst Fear and Loss
When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers. And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst death, chaos, fear, and loss. – Rebecca Solnit
Wednesday of Hope – Unfailing Love
What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love. – Nipun Mehta
Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
The Heart of Wonder
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. – John O’Donohue
The Poet Speaks Again
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the book of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. – Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good…
Be Alert . . . to Find God
Here is some fine advice from Henry David Thoreau: My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.
