Daily Signet

We carry within us the code that links us back to a time before time, to a world before we were aware of being aware. This code has worked its way down through the ages; with each one it has recombined and played itself out through the human flesh. This code—like a fire—can consume us. It is the impelling passion that brings us together; that has brought our ancestors together—but it is not that which holds us together. Only when the code is channeled and contained within the borders of human reason and right action does it escalate into civilization and there is no greater center of civilization than home.

From The Mystery of Home and Thanksgiving High Service

On This Day…

Sts. Zechariah and Elizabeth: parents of John the Baptist. Zechariah was a priest in the temple at Jerusalem and, when visited by Archangel Gabriel who announced that Elizabeth, his barren and aged wife would bear a child asked for proof. For having disbelieved, Gabriel struck Zechariah dumb, though his speech returned after the birth of John.