About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

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 [...]

Easter 2021

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

To what can you compare the Christ? Christ is like the saxifrage about which the poet from Patterson wrote: "Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks."1 From "A Sort of Song" by William Carlos Williams Friend ~ May the Holy One who is the Light Read more [...]

Tenebrae – Clinging to a Laughable Conviction

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Wednesday of Holy Week Tenebrae, Latin for "darkness" or "Shadows"1 There are not many ways to God, but only one, and it lies through the depth of a person’s own soul, when he leaves his false self behind,* and is stripped, and alone like the Read more [...]

Find Readings

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

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Brother Weeps Gives a Word on Love

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Nature’s Power to Mirror

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We must first honor and cherish all creation as an expression or mirror of the Divine Beauty. "This, then, is salvation, when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise the beautiful providence of their Creator," wrote Meister Eckhart. ~ Read more [...]

The Great Currency ~ A Life-Line

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What I’ve seen on my rounds is that if you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to reflect at the end of a life, then love is revealed as the great currency. It’s the thing. The treasury. It’s what mattered. Few gloat Read more [...]

Absolute Attention is Prayer

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Simone Weil says, “Absolute attention is prayer.” And the more I have thought about this over the years, the truer it is for me. I have used the sentence often in talking about poetry to students, to suggest that if one Read more [...]

Musica Memento 8

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

The famous, former television newscaster Dan Rather has a show called The Big Interview. It's as much hobby as semi-retired work. As it turns out, Rather is a music lover. Most of his guests are musicians, singer-songwriters, with an occasional actor, Read more [...]

Trust Me, You Are

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

In the mythic prelapsarian world there was no need for fig leaves other than by figs. There was no such thing as an unforgiving mirror but only the pure, exalting reflection off the still waters of Paradise Pond. The paradisaical lexicon of human Read more [...]

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