Daily Signet

In Juan Mascaro’s translation of the Isa Upanishad it says, “only actions done in God bind not the soul of man.” And our prayer is “May that which is timeless fill all our days.” Don’t let the trivial, the mundane, the destructive, the obsessive, the political, the disappointing smear off on you. Be on the lookout for an unexpected voice to take your breath away, and call out in you something that is unexpectedly urgent and unexpectedly true.

“Behold the universe in the glory of God: and all that lives and moves on earth,” says the Isa Upanishad. May we be held in the rapture of being alive; may we behold the rapture of being alive; may we be beholden to the rapture of being alive; may we hold fast to the truth that we are on the holy ground of being alive.                                                                                              

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger

John Fisher by Hans Holbein the Younger

Sts. Thomas More (1487-1535) and Cardinal John Fisher (1469-1535): More was a lawyer, judge, Member of Parliament, scholar, writer and humanist, tutor of future King Henry VIII, diplomat, Lord Chancellor of England who was martyred for his refusal to swear an oath that he believed King Henry to be head of the Catholic Church in England. Fisher was a priest who served as chaplain to Lady Margaret Beaufort, grandmother of Henry VIII; chancellor of Cambridge, he was responsible for the great improvement in the education provided there. He became Bishop of Rochester and was famous for his writings against Martin Luther. Fisher was Queen Catherine of Aragon’s counselor and her chief support during her struggle against Henry’s attempts to divorce her. Leader of the opposition to Henry’s claim as Head of the Church, he was executed along with More.