Advent emphasizes themes of BEING ALERT, WAITING, and HOPE. How hard we find it to wait – in slow-moving traffic, in lines at the bank or grocery store, for an anticipated check in the mail. Here’s what I have been pondering during this first week of Advent. We read in Luke’s Gospel: Be alert at … More Waiting with Hope
Although the season of Advent begins only tomorrow, I am already well into the season: I am listening to my favorite album, Adviento by Jaime Cortez. The last selection of the album is especially appropriate to the Advent theme of LIGHT: “Luz del Mundo”. The composer sings it in both Spanish and English. I have … More Light in Our Darkness
Know where you stand, and stand there. (Daniel Berrigan, SJ, anti-war activist and poet)
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)
For your kindness extends to the heavens; let your glory radiate over all the earth. (Psalm 57:11)
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)
If God were small enough to be understood, God would not be big enough to be worshiped. (Evelyn Underhill, writer and pacifist)
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)
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)
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)
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
Discovering the Divine in the Everyday
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
