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St. Catherine of Siena

“What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.”

“I have made a Bridge of my Word, of my only-begotten Son, and this is the truth. I have given you the Bridge of my Son, in order that, passing across the flood (of the tempestuous sea of this life), you may not be drowned.”

“To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.”

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St. Catherine of Sienna biography. 2:58
Catherine of Siena: The Dialog
Fr Scott Wood of St. Catherine of Sienna
The Gift of Tears
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A Fresh Start

Post-pandemic energy meets promptings of the Spirit. I’ve gifted myself with a spot to share my treasures. I hope to be useful and nourishing. And not too full of myself. So I’m starting deliberately with no goals, kind of the opposite of my normal self. We’ll just see what happens and hope for grace.

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Videos of Poetry & Verse

Mary Oliver reads from “A Thousand Mornings”

1:31 to 3:42 Mark Van Dorn, Once in Kentucky about Thomas Merton read by Br David Stendahl Rahst

David Whyte recites Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love”

Frederick Buechner reads “Tears”

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The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

–Rumi: Selected Poems, trans Coleman Barks with John Moynce, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson (Penguin Books, 2004)

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Friday Videos: May 28th, 2021

What is the Trinity? 2:24

Brant Pitre The Holy Trinity 11:10

Rohr: God is Relationship Itself 3:39

3Min theology: What is the Trinity? 3:29

Nabeel Quereshi explaining the Trinity 7:57