Life-Line

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Maybe more than anything else, to be a saint is to know joy. Not happiness that comes and goes with the moments that occasion it, but joy that is always there like an underground spring no matter how dark and terrible the night. Read more [...]

Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps on Becoming Human and Holy

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

“Sister Mahala, Brother Weeps says that to become human and holy we must endure many trials, experience much suffering, undergo failures and unravelings, even humiliations,” said a young man. “That’s true,” said Sister Mahala, “many Read more [...]

Be Holy

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Many times when teaching people the practice of lectio divina (meditatively praying with scripture), I have quipped, “Start with the Psalms or maybe one of the gospels. You probably want to stay away from Leviticus.” By the comment I meant to suggest Read more [...]

Holiness: Love in Action

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Holiness as Love in Action What saints risk the most, simply stated but not so simply lived, is to be enlivened by love – the giving and receiving of it. In an anthology of mystical writings from various world religions, Andrew Harvey titled each chapter Read more [...]

Holiness: No Accident, No Achievement

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Holiness is Not an Accident

In the mid-1980’s Anne Tyler wrote a novel called The Accidental Tourist. While it is possible to be an accidental tourist, it is improbable if not impossible to be an accidental saint (nor, I might add, much to my chagrin, Read more [...]

Retrieving Holiness

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

~ All Saints Day ~

It occurs to me that today’s feast is an appropriate response to last week’s pre Halloween question. Whether 3rd graders on the playground or college students in the dorm room or white collar corporates still lucky enough to Read more [...]

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