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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Mini Meditations
A little lectio for praying-as-you-go
A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]
A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.
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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: 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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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: Grace is found in honoring the dead
Christ died and was buried in all of us. Every time you do something physically to honor a deceased person you are performing a work of mercy.
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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: Finding a Home at God’s Altar
Psalm 84 encourages us to find a home with God.
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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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Pray: Our Mother, Jesus
In this month of Mary, one holy woman reminds us that Jesus is our Mother, too
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