Easter 2023 in Poetry & Song

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Friends of The Sacred Braid and readers of THE ALMOND TREE, the author of the Song of Songs writes: "See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come." And the song of spring we sing is Read more [...]

Christmas 2022 ~ To Be or Not to Be—Involved

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us as one of us. After arduous and diligent digs for the past twenty-five years at Mount Precipice, or Mount of the Leap, in the southern outskirts of Nazareth, overlooking the Jezre'el Valley, archeologists Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 4

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

WANTED: Couriers of Love These days, with marketing insisting on playing top dog, authors are lucky if the books they write bear the names they choose. The books of Abraham Heschel, my spiritual guide and second favorite Rabbi, however, were written Read more [...]

How Did Christ Meditate? ~ A Life-Line

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Once a student asked the 20th-century Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba (known to his followers as Maharaj-ji) how to meditate, and Maharaj-ji replied, “Meditate the way Christ meditated.” There was silence and pondering. Read more [...]

The Skin-to-Skin of Divine Love

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today we celebrate the incarnation of love in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In verse 1 of the prologue to his Gospel, the Evangelist John famously writes: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Greek Read more [...]

Grace is a Happening that Evokes Our Two Vocations

Posted on December 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Before we knew it as a last-ditch effort to throw a football sixty yards with no time left on the clock into a mosh pit in the end zone, those of us who grew up Catholic knew the Hail Mary as a prayer, the words of which slid off the tongue as spontaneously Read more [...]

In Other Words ~ Kenneth Leech 1

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

When I was in graduate school studying theology et al, one of my professors gave us a bit of good counsel that I have never forgotten. He said find as your teacher, guide, and companion someone who is wise enough and has written enough that you can 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 [...]

Poem 5 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Hopkin’s poem below. As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in Read more [...]

John Lewis, February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020, R.I.P.

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I Read more [...]

The Sacred Braid

Helping Persons and Communities Weave Lives of Spiritual Depth.

Tag Archives: Christ