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. ...
Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saints: Saint Stephanie, Martyr (4th century); Our Lady of Walsingham; Blessed Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin (1800-1851); Blessed Anton Martin Slomshek (1800-1862)
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 6 Restraint of Speech
Mass: Ecc 11:9-12:8; Resp Ps 90; Lk 9:43b-45
Return, O Lord! How long?
