[Beth Adams’ introduction to Contemplative Prayer on April 14, 2015] During Lent we’ve been hearing advice and wisdom from important teachers of contemplation, and I plan to continue with that, but today I’d like to talk about learning from real life: the great teacher who is available to us all...
“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear...
“It’s in stillness that we prepare ourselves for dealing with the realities of life, which are often very difficult ones.”- Pico Iyer More and more entirely secular people like the famous travel writer Pico Iyer are today being drawn to retreats and to the refreshment of quiet. He discusses...
Kat Speeckaert – meditation on Luke 23: 39-49 The wood of this cross is rough against my naked back. Still morning, and the sun is already too hot, too bright. My body aches, and I try not to think about it. A fly lands on my face and I shake...
Jean Jacques Goulet – méditation sur Éphésians 6:12 et Colossiens 2:15
Tuesday in Holy Week, 2015 A Reading from the Holy Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 26 6 Now, while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as...
Monday in Holy Week, 2015 Matthew 23 : 29 – 39 29 ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, 30 and you say, “If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would...
“What we discipline is any form of potential escape from reality. In other words, discipline allows us to be right here and connect with the richness of the moment.” Pema Chödrön’s reflection on discipline was the subject of last week’s meditation talk. Chödrön is a well-known writer, the first fully...
Palm Sunday and Holy Week invite us to close the screen and join the community of faith in person. To discover new meanings in the scriptures, the liturgies, the learnings, the silences, the music. Here is a series of paintings of the Passion by Italian artist Carla Carli Mazzucato and...
Sally Harrington Philippo will be our guest speaker during the Cathedral’s forthcoming Retreat. Places remain for the full retreat; you may also elect to sign up for a one-day Quiet Day on either Friday May 1, or Saturday May 2. Sally has been a spiritual director for more than l5 years;...
Starting this Sunday (March 22 in 2015), the season of Passiontide invites us to deepen our contemplation of suffering and the way God’s power is hidden from us. The veils now hanging over crosses and holy images in the Cathedral offer a visible reminder of this hiddenness. One has only to...