Finding Self in the Inner Sanctuary
In a place of sacred pause, calm, and clarity, you can find yourself.
RPW
Good Friday Mediation: Admitting Fault is Restorative
We atone, but always with hope in the Resurrection. How do you approach God: with confidence in his mercy or temerity?
Have No Desire to be Perfect
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Pray: God’s plan evident even in struggle
An essay by Brian Doyle offers an opportunity to meditate on suffering and acceptance.