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Posted on February 27, 2022
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“Zen pretty much comes down to three things – everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” Jane Hirshfield To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: buddha, farm, forest, illinois, indian creek farm, jane hirshfield, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, statue, udumbara zen center, wedron, zen
Posted on June 16, 2021
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“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series entitled, “Doorways to the Sacred.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Pilgrimage of the Heart”
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Posted on January 4, 2021
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But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang downRedeem the time, redeem the dreamThe token of the word unheard, unspoken. – T. S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday,” The Waste Land and Other Poems Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online… Continue Reading “Redeem the Time”
Category: SpiritualityTags: fountain, garden, kayleen asbo, mary, online retreat, photo, photography, poem, quote, santa sabina center, santa sabina center retreat, st. dominic, statue, t.s. elliot, the wasteland and other poems
Posted on December 8, 2020
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. – Fran Lebowitz 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 our online retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting while Listening”
Posted on April 29, 2020
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Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That’s what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead. – Neale Donald Walsch, Tomorrow’s God On this Feast of Catherine, we look back on her life in… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – The Feast of St. Catherine of Siena”
Category: Hope / HealingTags: bas relief of dominic and catherine, basilica, catherine of siena, door, italy, neale donald falsch, photo, photography, post-processing, san domenico, Siena, statue, tomorrow's god
Posted on December 25, 2017
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We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full… Continue Reading “Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas”
Category: ChristmasTags: baby jesus, christmas, madonna, meister eckhart, mother and child, photo, photography, post-processing, quote, rose court, statue
Posted on December 25, 2016
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Let us join our voices with the music of the angels this Christmas!
Posted on December 23, 2014
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O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of the nations and the Savior of them all, O come and save us, O Lord our God -source of translation unknown
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Posted on December 22, 2014
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O King of the Nations and Desire of the all, you are the Cornerstone who makes both one. O come and save the creatures whom you fashioned out of clay. – source of translation unknown
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Posted on May 15, 2014
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Life’s wonder and mystery can be discovered as easily at a traffic light as on a mountaintop. • Ezra Bayda in Saying Yes to Life
Category: Finding GodTags: ezra bayda, photo, photography, quote, saying yes to life, st. catherine of siena, st. peter's, statue, traffic light, vatican, vatican city