Have No Desire to be Perfect
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.
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Mini Meditations
A little lectio for praying-as-you-go
Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping
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.
“It was not until I lost my hearing that I started learning to listen .”
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Speak with Love, not Judgement
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
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]
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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