Staying Open

21 Mar, 2021
Staying Open Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. —1 Corinthians 13:7, NASB This love—whose source is God’s very self—is an open-heartedness. You can tell when ...

Praying through Art

14 Mar, 2021
Praying through Art Paul’s prayer in his letter to the Ephesians is a favorite succinct statement of his wisdom, and it is a prayer for you, as well: I bow my ...

Midrash

6 Mar, 2021
Midrash The Jewish practice of midrash is a way of interpreting Scripture that asks questions more than seeks always certain and unchanging answers. It allows many possibilities, many levels of faith-filled meaning—meaning that ...

Reading Scripture with the Mind of Christ

28 Feb, 2021
Reading Scripture with the Mind of Christ Looking at which Scripture passages Jesus emphasizes (remember, the Hebrew Bible was his only Bible!) shows he clearly understands how to connect the “three ...

Letting Go into God

21 Feb, 2021
Letting Go into God It is said that Francis’ great prayer, which he would spend whole nights praying, is “Who are you, God? And who am I?” Contemplative prayer helps us ...

Bodily Knowing

14 Feb, 2021
Bodily Knowing St. Francis objectively experienced mutual indwelling with Jesus and with all of God’s creatures. We see this most clearly late in his life when the cruciform shape of reality ...

Saying Grace

7 Feb, 2021
Saying Grace Many cultures have a beautiful tradition of saying a prayer before or after a meal, expressing gratitude and asking for blessing. If we are accustomed to praying over our ...

Living in the Flow

31 Jan, 2021
Living in the Flow By being observant of your own emotional life and perhaps getting in touch with your own unconscious, you might become aware of your psychological blockages to experiencing ...

Body Prayer

24 Jan, 2021
Body Prayer If the incarnation is true and we are the Body of Christ, then prayer is fully experienced when it is also from the bottom up, when we “pray from ...

The Sacred Heart

17 Jan, 2021
The Sacred Heart As a Catholic, Richard Rohr was often puzzled by the continued return to heart imagery among our saints and in our art. The “Sacred Heart” of Jesus and ...

Tonglen

9 Jan, 2021
How to Practice Tonglen Pema Chödrön teaches us “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion. With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each out-breath, we send them ...

Lectio Divina

8 Jan, 2021
Lectio Divina Lectio divina is a contemplative way to read short passages of sacred text. With the first reading, listen with your heart’s ear for a phrase or word that stands out for you. ...

Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year

3 Jan, 2021
Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year Adapted from: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN Tara Brach, PhD The ...

Centering Prayer

1 Jan, 2021
Centering Prayer This is what you are to do. Lift your heart up to the Lord with a gentle stirring of love, desiring him for his own sake and not for ...

Examen

25 Jul, 2020
A great way to pray is to look for God’s presence in your life. More than 400 years ago St. Ignatius Loyola encouraged prayer-filled mindfulness by proposing what has been called ...