Berry Time at the Redwoods
Berry time at the Redwoods is a team activity. It begins with thriving bushes loaded with luscious berries...
I have ascended to the highest in me, and look! The Lord is towering above that. In my curiosity I have descended to explore my lowest depths, yet I found God even deeper. If I looked outside myself, I saw God stretching beyond the furthest I could see; and if I looked within, God was yet further within. Then I knew the truth of what I had read, "In God we live and move and have our being."
—Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian, 12th Century
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Berry time at the Redwoods is a team activity. It begins with thriving bushes loaded with luscious berries...
Every journey is a liminal space, an in-between time, spanning where I am now and where I hope to end up. While a journey often involves some physical travel, a meaningful journey is accompanied by a displacement of a habitual dispositions and mindsets, while engaging an inner dimension. ...
In other years: Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 60 The Admission of Priests to the Monastery
Mass: Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Resp Ps 40; Heb 12:1-4; Lk 12:49-53
Vigil Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [celebrated before or after First Vespers (Evening Prayer 1) of the Solemnity]: Chronicles 15:3-4, 15-16;16:1-2; Resp Ps 132; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28
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