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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller
St. Francis — Receiver & Giver of Joy
"Joy is the most undeniable sign of the presence of God." ~ Leon Bloy
Beginning in the early 1980's, I began making regular jaunts to Weston, Vermont to spend time with the Benedictine Brothers at Weston Priory nestled at the foot of the Green Mountains. Read more [...]
Times They Are A-Changin’ OR How Kids Get to School These Days
This afternoon I heard a news report on the radio that said “India became the fourth country to land on the moon,” which is mind-blowing to think how in the world they got all those people there. But the report got me thinking about travel. Not Read more [...]
Sunday Take Five ~ A Music Break for Body & Soul
Dearly Beloved ~ Yoko Shimomura
The RU Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Jon Kimura Parker, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vKUd-j8MnIk
Dvorak (arr. Fischer) - "Goin' Home" for Cello and Piano
Nicholas Read more [...]
The World Will Be Saved By ——
There is an all-too-familiar adage—"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"—that has allowed many to assume beauty is utterly subjective. In fact, beauty is no more subjective than goodness or truth which together allude to the triadic nature of God. Read more [...]
When Religion Goes off the Rails ~ A Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Religion becomes sinful when it begins to advocate the segregation of God, to forget that the true sanctuary has no walls. Religion has always suffered from the tendency to become an end in itself, to seclude the holy, to become Read more [...]
Let’s Hear It for All the Moms Out There
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
“Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.” . . .
Give her of the fruit of her hands,
and let her works praise her in the gates.
~ Proverbs Read more [...]
A New Serenity Prayer
Hump Wednesday — I saw the Roches in Princeton in the 1980's and loved them—their harmonies, humor, and sass. Terre Roche teams up with Fr. James Martin SJ for a NEW SERENITY PRAYER. Sometimes what is lacking in prayer is a wee bit of levity. We Read more [...]
Easter 2023 in Poetry & Song
Friends of The Sacred Braid
and readers of THE ALMOND TREE,
the author of the Song of Songs writes:
"See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come."
And the song of spring we sing
is Read more [...]
Second Friday of Lent — Gideon’s Bible, My Unsung Hero, and the Practice of Hope as an Act of Resistance
One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world.
~ Abraham Heschel
I confess to a wee bit of eye-rolling in response to the GBS otherwise known as The Gideon's Bible Syndrome. Most of you who have spent time pilfering hotel bathrooms Read more [...]