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Searching for Saint Brigid

February 1, 2023 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

Mame LOVED Saint Brigid.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: brigid, grandparents, ireland, spiritual practice

Reaching for Light

April 4, 2022 By Meaghan Brower 3 Comments

It is still very, very cold in New England. 

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: Lent, spiritual practice, spring, winter

The Spiritual Practice of Slathering

March 31, 2021 By Kit Lonergan 3 Comments

It’s late to be writing a post about Lent, but I’m of the modest opinion that the practices you take on in Lent aren’t just seasonal.

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Filed Under: Lent, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Lent, spiritual discipline, spiritual practice

Journeying to Bethlehem This Advent

November 24, 2020 By Natalie Keller 1 Comment

Last year, I was offered an opportunity to travel to Bethlehem, Palestine to work with adults and youth to create a circus outreach program with a long time friend

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Advent, Palestine, spiritual practice, youth ministry

Prayer Pumpkins

October 1, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady 3 Comments

Some days it’s hard for me to think about the last 24 months or so. I have gone from being an 18-month plan-ahead kind of person to a taking-it-one-day-at-a- time kind of person.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: children, gratitude, Holidays, Prayer, spiritual practice, thankfulness

Advent at 80 miles per hour

December 4, 2019 By Sara Irwin 6 Comments

How do we observe Advent?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices, Uncategorized Tagged With: Advent, Advent wreath, love, spiritual practice

When the Basics are Hard

April 3, 2019 By Sarah Kinney Gaventa 3 Comments

I’ve been attending yoga classes at my local studio for about a year. I’m into yoga for the stretching and centering, so when Zoe announced that the theme of the Wednesday class was going to be hard work, I immediately got nervous.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer Tagged With: bedtime, confession, Lent, parenting, Prayer, spiritual practice

Low Clearance

March 27, 2019 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

In the fall of 2017, I learned about the American Heart Association’s Heart Mini. The race featured a half marathon, a 15K, 5K race, and 5K walk. I thought to myself, hmmm…. 15K… that seems like a big goal, but doable.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Health, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: race, running, spiritual practice, walking

Roman Rewards

March 5, 2019 By Emily Watkins 1 Comment

In my day job I teach bible stories to 250 kids every week and after I tell a story to each group of twenty students we wonder about it together. I am continually amazed at how deep my students are willing to delve and what amazing insights they have to offer.

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, spiritual practice, St. Paul, The Good Book Club

Teaching the Lord’s Prayer

February 7, 2019 By Jerusalem Jackson Greer 2 Comments

A while ago I was looking for a gift to give at church for children’s baptisms or to new parents, when I stumbled upon these jumbo prayer beads, perfect for little hands. Wanting to connect the beads to a practice of prayer, I devised a little method of traveling the beads while praying The Lord’s Prayer, connecting each bead to a portion of the prayer, in the hopes that this tactile practice would help the children both memorize and internalize the prayer that Christ taught us all to pray.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Lords Prayer, Prayer, spiritual practice

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