About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

The Three eSSential S’ – A Life line

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To return back into ourselves, there are three things needed, for which you don't require a computer, television or radio: the first is a bit of stillness. Nothing can happen without a certain stillness. We also need silence. Read more [...]

We Must Always Take Sides: A Life-Line

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ~ Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Encourages: Join the Choir

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

One day before Brother Weeps began his daily conference with the novices, a young monk raised his hand. "Yes, Brother Placid," said Brother Weeps. "Brother Weeps, why when church groups or organizations come to the Abbey for retreat do you Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on the Talkative Monk

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps was giving a series of talks one summer on what makes for a happy, healthy, and holy monk and monastic community. One afternoon speaking about the role of silence and the necessity of humor, he told the following story: Once there was Read more [...]

On Prayer

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A woman once said to a monk, “I have run out of prayers to say.” "Ah, good,” said the monk. “Prayer is what happens when you have run out of words.” ~ Author Unknown ARTWORK: I greatly appreciate the work of Read more [...]

Just Wondering

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

[Humankind] will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder. ~ Read more [...]

The Sacrament of Music

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Aaaah! The power of music to move people, to return us to ourselves, to act on young and old alike, to connect us to one another -- family, friend, stranger, foe -- to rearrange our precious plans by the maestro's genius for arranging notes that lean Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 10

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We read Lectio under the eye of God Meditatio until the heart is touched Oratio and leaps into flame. Contemplatio ~ Dom Marmion For a write-up on Read more [...]

Easter 2021

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

To what can you compare the Christ? Christ is like the saxifrage about which the poet from Patterson wrote: "Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks."1 From "A Sort of Song" by William Carlos Williams Friend ~ May the Holy One who is the Light Read more [...]

Tenebrae – Clinging to a Laughable Conviction

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Wednesday of Holy Week Tenebrae, Latin for "darkness" or "Shadows"1 There are not many ways to God, but only one, and it lies through the depth of a person’s own soul, when he leaves his false self behind,* and is stripped, and alone like the Read more [...]

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