Acting Our Way into Belief ~ A Life-Line

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Bridges once wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins and asked him to tell him how he, Bridges, could believe. Bridges was an agnostic. Hopkins wrote back, "Give alms." ~ Flannery O'Connor Goodpeople, thank you for visiting THE ALMOND TREE. So 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 [...]

Poem 5 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Hopkin’s poem below. As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in Read more [...]

Lent Means Springtime

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent Ah! Spring is springing. Let us remember that not only is Lent not meant to be a gloomy season but that in fact the word means “springtime,” and refers to the lengthening of light. Whether according to the liturgical Read more [...]

Lent: Making Room for . . .

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

When I speak of the three time-honored spiritual practices of Lent – prayer, fasting, and almsgiving – in terms of creating a vacancy, it is important to know that we do so not out of a spirit of sour-faced, self-deprivation, denigration, or punishment. Read more [...]

Tumbling for Words or If This is a Birthday Party for the Mouth, Then What of My Life?

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

“The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone. What the words stood for, symbolized, or meant, was of very secondary importance; what mattered was the Read more [...]

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