Witness
October 21, 2018
Know where you stand, and stand there. (Daniel Berrigan, SJ, anti-war activist and poet) Advertisements
Month: October 2018
People on the Margins
October 20, 2018
We are sent to the margins not to make a difference but so that the folks on the margins will make us different. (Gregory Boyle, SJ, founder of Homeboy Industries)
Kindness
October 15, 2018
For your kindness extends to the heavens; let your glory radiate over all the earth. (Psalm 57:11)
Sowing Seeds of Love
October 13, 2018
We are sowing the seed of love; and, we are not living in the harvest time so that we can expect a crop. (Dorothy Day, journalist and social activist)
Worthy of Worship
October 12, 2018
If God were small enough to be understood, God would not be big enough to be worshiped. (Evelyn Underhill, writer and pacifist)
Silence
October 10, 2018
The silence of the landscape allowed the desert mothers to hear the silence of God, the silence from which all creation is spoken into being. (Mary C. Earle, Episcopal priest)
Tithing Our Time
October 8, 2018
What all of us are able to offer God is time: time for prayer, time for spiritual reading, time to reflect, time to listen to others, and time to help them. Perhaps we should think of tithing our time. (Michael Casey, OSCO, Cistercian monk from Tarrawarra Abbey)
The Nitty-Gritty of Creation
October 7, 2018
There is no better time than Lent to rediscover God’s covenant with us in the nitty-gritty of creation, in the day-to-day gifts. For this we say, “Laudato Si! God be praised!” (Jerome Kodell, OSB, former abbot of Subiaco Abbey)
Wholeness
October 6, 2018
We are to realize the whole we are part of and to love the whole; to find a conscious voice of praise and glory to God in the whole; and to participate in this unfolding reign of God. (Ilia Delio, OSF, American theologian)
Train!
October 5, 2018
Quantum physics is teaching us that everything that exists is interconnected and affects everything else that exists. Reality, by its very nature, is interconnectedness. (Heidi Ann Russell, Professor of Religious Studies)
