Episode Archives

Pray: Even negative emotions can be welcomed as guests

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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Write: Finding Power in Defeat

In response to this meditation, with an eye toward a new start in the new year, distill your experience with defeat with a statement of power through hope.

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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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