A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]
A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.
Episode Archives
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.
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
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: Untie knots with Mary’s healing
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.
Write: Let go of a knot in order to “untie” it.
Letting go is just another phrase that means forgiveness, especially for ourselves.
There is nothing to fear: A meditation on Luke 21
By our perseverance—in faith, not in fear—we will secure our lives.