Pray: Even negative emotions can be welcomed as guests
Ancient poet, Rumi, encourages us to accept all emotions as bearers of wisdom.
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Pray: Tears are a Gift
Tears can be holy water if we are brave enough to share our grief and joy and ecstasy and despair with others.
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Pray: Death teaches love & how to “be”
Two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a journalist—ponder the universal questions about the meaning of life through death.
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Pray: No one is excluded from God’s love & mercy.
Inclusion, an act of mercy, is manifested in opening one’s arms wide to welcome without excluding or labeling others–Pope Francis
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Pray: Resist obstacles to love with new habits
Those on the path toward greater spiritual freedom and love find strength in a very undramatic and almost unnoticeable ways when they avoid letting egos and self-preoccupations to take over.
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Edit negative feelings by offering them to the Holy Spirit
Rewrite a moment, past or present, that leads to discouragement, finding new habits of courage, strength, and tranquility.
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Finding Hope in Encounter with Christ
Thomas Merton reminds us that “True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope.”
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Pray: Untie knots with Mary’s healing
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.
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Pray: God’s plan evident even in struggle
An essay by Brian Doyle offers an opportunity to meditate on suffering and acceptance.
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Pray: Blessing of the Father
This reading reminds not just fathers and sons, but also mothers, daughters and all those who parent or are parented that God the Father awaits our return from loneliness, anger, jealousy and desolation with His ever-ready blessing.
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