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Cultivating Holy Space

March 28, 2023 By Stephanie Moncrieff Leave a Comment

Space. It felt as if I never had enough.

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Contemplation, Lent, Prayer, young children

A Window into Heaven – and Here

January 29, 2023 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

Some years ago I took a retreat among the brothers at the Society of St. John the Evangelist that focused on icons.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: art, icons, Prayer, SSJE

More Prayer Stations for Election Day

November 4, 2022 By Victoria Hoppes Leave a Comment

As the United States nears the 2022 midterms, I decided to create a new set of prayer stations to be used during this election season. These stations provide people with tangible ways to pray for our communities and leaders as we continue to navigate how to interact with each other in politically divided times.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: election, faith at home, government, Prayer

Does Suffering Make you Stronger?

October 15, 2022 By Samantha Vincent-Alexander 4 Comments

Often it is in the midst of the suffering that mystics see their greatest visions.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: mystic, pain, Prayer, saints, suffering, teresa of avila

It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse

October 14, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

I don’t know what to ask of God that will make all this better.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: gun violence, hymns, Prayer

Turn Around: Embracing Change On The Feast of Saint Matthew

September 21, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

As a child, my understanding of Lutheran theology was informed at least as much by its distance from Roman Catholicism as it was by anything we did in worship itself.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: change, patron saints, Prayer, roman catholic, St. Matthew

The Ignatian Examen: A Prayer for Overwhelmed Parents and Ordinary Days

August 29, 2022 By Margaret Ellsworth 2 Comments

There are seasons of parenting which also feel long and green, when the days and moments blend together in one continuous stream. During one such season for me, when I was a stay-at-home parent, I found help in a prayer practice made for ordinary days: the Ignatian Examen. 

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Forward Movement, parenting, Prayer

Lifting up the lowly

May 31, 2022 By Mary Lee Wile 1 Comment

When I was a little girl, the closet in my bedroom had a back door. You pushed through clothes, unlatched a hook, and behind the door was a dark tunnel: a slanted crawl space that ran the length of the house.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer Tagged With: Elizabeth, magnificat, Mary, Prayer, Visitation

Down in the gullies, you make springs to rise

May 17, 2022 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Have you ever had one of those palm-to-forehead moments?

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Annunciation, confession, grace, Prayer

Continuing to Pray for Ukraine

March 11, 2022 By Lauren Kuratko 1 Comment

While I can’t control the war in the Ukraine, I can control my response to it.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: Prayer, War

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