Sep 29, 2023 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, Uncategorized, World
Today, Friday, September 29, is the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. It might be a particularly auspicious day to be open to how angels are present in our own lives. Here is John O’Donohue’s A Blessing of Angels, which might help us to experience angels in a new...
Sep 1, 2023 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
Aidan was a monk at St. Columba’s monastery on the island of Iona in the seventh century. Upon hearing that a fellow monk had gotten nowhere in preaching the gospel to the northern English, Aidan piped up and opined that perhaps a gentler approach would work. The...
Aug 4, 2023 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
In these dog days of summer, you might want to try a new spiritual practice ─ napping! To be sure, this is not what we typically think of when we imagine prayer practices. Our ideas may tend more toward kneeling or sitting quietly, reciting memorized or improvised...
Jul 7, 2023 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
With the nicer weather of summer upon us, you might think about shaking up your prayer life a bit. One spiritual practice that often gets forgotten is to use walking as a prayer. In fact, monks and nuns have practiced walking meditation since the beginning of...
Jun 9, 2023 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
One of my favorite things about St. Barnabas, whose feast day we commemorate on Monday (transferred from Sunday), is that his name means “son of encouragement.” It is particularly notable, because Barnabas started out life in Cyprus with the name Joseph. We learn in...