Mini Meditations

A little lectio for praying-as-you-go

Good Friday Mediation: Admitting Fault is Restorative

March 29, 2024 RPW 0:08:59 Comments Off

We atone, but always with hope in the Resurrection. How do you approach God: with confidence in his mercy or temerity?

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Have No Desire to be Perfect

March 11, 2024 RPW 0:10:48 Comments Off

Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.

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Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping

February 4, 2024 jkelly 0:10:28 Comments Off

Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.

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Listening for the holy means accepting others as beloved.

December 15, 2023 jkelly 0:11:07 Comments Off

“It was not until I lost my hearing that I started learning to listen .”

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Speak with Love, not Judgement

November 13, 2023 jkelly 0:09:50 Comments Off

Love of neighbor requires holding our tongue and not correcting others, says Catherine of Sienna and this month’s author.

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Pray: Tears are a Gift

September 15, 2023 RPW 9:49 Comments Off

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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A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]

August 4, 2023 jkelly 0:09:17 Comments Off

A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.

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Pray: Death teaches love & how to “be”

April 4, 2023 jkelly 00:07:50 Comments Off

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

January 17, 2023 RPW 00:07:43 Comments Off

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.