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: 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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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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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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