The World Will Be Saved By ——

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

There is an all-too-familiar adage—"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"—that has allowed many to assume beauty is utterly subjective. In fact, beauty is no more subjective than goodness or truth which together allude to the triadic nature of God. Read more [...]

Rugged Individualists or Mutually Enhancing Participants?

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Not for ourselves alone are we born. ~ Cicero No one becomes human, no one becomes oneself by oneself. None of us become who we have been created by God to be without others. Becoming human, let alone becoming oneself, involves and requires human connection, 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 [...]

Brother Weeps and the Do-Si-Do

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Advice Someone dancing inside us learned only a few steps: the "Do-Your-Work" in 4/4 time. the "What-Do-You-Expect" waltz. He hasn't noticed yet the woman standing away from the lamp, the one with dark eyes who knows the rhumba and strange Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (2)

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 2. . . continued from December 3, 2019 MYSELF: I’d like to pick up where we left off. Read more [...]

The Invitation — Participation

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Instigated by the faith and foresight of Pope John XXIII, from 1962-65 the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church gathered in Rome for the Second Vatican Council (popularly referred to as Vatican II). In terms of cultural and worldwide impact, it was one Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Christening

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Christening [kris-uh-ning]

Instead of mapping out a schedule of predetermined words and dates for A Word to the Wise, I usually wait, in the spirit of lectio divina, until a word seems to be waving to get my attention like a pedestrian hailing a cab. Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Antiphon

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Antiphon [an-tuh-fon]

This week’s word is ANTIPHON.

For a few years now I have been working on an acoustic theology that engenders an antiphonal spirituality, spirituality here meaning simply the enactment of one’s theology in the various spheres Read more [...]

Poetry and Faith as Participative Acts

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Lest those of us who are Catholic forget, the single greatest liturgical change that was set in motion at the Second Vatican Council, was not that the language of the Mass changed from Latin to the vernacular of the people gathered, nor that Monsignor Read more [...]

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