Life-Line

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Kindness [kahynd-nis] “What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with Read more [...]

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

My favorite quote to illuminate what it means to be holy is the well-worn line from St. Iranaeus: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” From the perspective of faith, the sacred drama of life involves and avails us the opportunity to Read more [...]

The Little Way of Nonviolence

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Reflection is an excerpt about Therese of Lisieux taken from John Dear’s book You Will Be My Witnesses. Born Therese Martin in Lisieux, Normandy, France, in 1873, she joined her sisters in the cloistered Carmelite convent at the age of 15. Read more [...]

A Kneeler in Training

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Two memories from my pre-Vatican II childhood that stick with me to this day revolve around kneeling. One is of my father, a man of simple but substantive faith, a man like all men blessed and broken, leaving the church pew, going up to the altar railing Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Dorothy Day

Life-Line

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

The Little Way of Nonviolence

A Kneeler in Training