St. Catherine/Santa Catalina Episcopal Church

12/09/2025

This years theme FEAR!
Brief and inspired! Diverse voices! Highly recommend!

Christianity Podcast · Updated Daily · Daily Advent is a gentle companion for the journey toward the coming light. Each day in Advent, take a brief moment of reflection to slow down, breathe deeply, and welcome the season with intention. …

10/28/2025

Please join us! No admission will be charged; donations for the North County Food Bank will be gladly accepted.

09/04/2023

God know my situation.
I am but one,
but I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but I can do something.

— Bishop Barbara Clementine Harris in WomanPrayers by Mary Ford-Grabowsky

08/24/2023

Accustom your tongue to say, I do not know.

— in The Talmud

08/21/2023

Listen to the tongueless teaching.

— Shunryu Suzuki in Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness by Shunryu Suzuki

08/19/2023

We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.

— Herman Melville in The Nature of Generosity by William Kittredge

08/11/2023

It only takes a moment for God to enrich you.

— Thomas Keating in Open Mind, Open Heart by Thomas Keating

08/10/2023

As spiritual agents of God — every moment becomes an opportunity to find a deeper meaning, a higher purpose, and a heightened awareness that we are created in God's image.

— David Ariel in What Do Jews Believe? by David Ariel

08/01/2023

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

— John Updike in Life Magazine

07/27/2023

A particularly distressing form of murmuring is speaking ill of others, with or without cause. Such action, whether gossip or libel, allows us to focus our energy and attention on the inadequacies of others rather than upon our own needs for forgiveness and growth.

— Norvene Vest in Desiring Life by Norvene Vest

07/25/2023

In the days of duels with pistols, the antagonists stood sideways as they raised and aimed their pistols to present as little a target as possible. When you contribute to your adversary's ability to hurt you by acting in ways that present a broad target, you are not only hurting yourself but also your adversary to bring out the worst in herself.

— Lewis Richmond in Lewis Richmond by Lewis Richmond

07/24/2023

Keep close to Nature's heart . . . and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

— John Muir in Leather Tramp Journal by Richard Broderick