About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

The Missing Peace

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Goodpeople, Pax Christi USA, the National Catholic Peace Movement, has been generous enough to reprint on their website an article I wrote in response to the Iraq War. It has been slightly updated. It is titled: "The Missing Peace in the Read more [...]

Come, O Freedom, Come, O Death ~ Back Copy

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

"Come! Death. I trust you as much as I have trusted life. Now come and sweep me into your mystery" ~ Sr. Jeanette Wasinger ~ A Catholic sister learns she has stage 4 lung cancer, inspires me with her faith-filled response to it, blesses me with Read more [...]

Celebrating the Beatituding Friends of God

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

TODAY is the Feast of All Saints. The gospel reading on this Feast Day is fixed. Every year it is the same passage: Matthew 5: 1-12a -- The Beatitudes. In 2008-2009, The Human & the Holy (H&H) community spent the better part of a year studying Read more [...]

for the Feast of All Souls – A Remembrance Prayer

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Here is a prayer for The Feast of All Souls, on November 2nd. We re-member ourselves today to those who have died, gone before us marked with the sign of faith, and to those whom we entrust to the faith of God, extravagant in mercy and generous Read more [...]

Musica Memento 3

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love kindly, and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 2

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The Bright Field by R. S. Thomas I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realise now that I Read more [...]

To Be Spun as Christ was Spun

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Tuesday of Holy Week Today's Life-Line: How do we live by faith, in love, with hope, in the face of the incompatibility of the luminous mystery and the sorrowful mystery of human existence? How do we live responsibly while fully Read more [...]

A Prayer: Harvest of the Heart

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AUTUMN We give thanks for the harvest of the heart's work; Seeds of faith planted with faith; Love nurtured by love; Courage strengthened by courage. We give thanks for the fruits of the struggling soul, The bitter and the sweet; For that Read more [...]

Compassion: A Radical Form of Criticism

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural Read more [...]

Remember

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

"If we approach nature and the environment without . . . openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, Read more [...]

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