Daily Signet

The mystery of God is in the God above the God—the God above all names and images ascribed by all nations and tribes, above all descriptions—even above the apophatic namings: not that, not that and not that.

No label, no name, no role—no I found it bumper sticker can put borders on the nature of God and successfully name God. God is like the thought that forms a word and though the word is dispersed on the page and across the telephone lines and between the satellite dishes, the thought remains. 

God is like a thought that pervades all formulation of words. Though the words convey the thought, they themselves are contained within the thought. Though they carry the thought's image, the thought still precedes them and extends above and beyond them.  

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Gregory the Great: 6C Benedictine monk, appointed Pope on Sept. 3rd, 590; an excellent administrator, he wrote, directed and instructed relentlessly, reshaping liturgical practices, setting up programs for the relief of the poor, weeding out recalcitrant clergy, heretics and schismatics.

Sarah Orne Jewett born in Berwick, Maine on Sept. 3, 1875: poet and writer
Works: A White Heron, Country of the Pointed Firs, Deephaven
Quotes: “The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.” “What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households.” “God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.”