Tag Archive for ‘prayer’
Wednesday 31 October
Ephesians 6:1-9; Psalm 145; Luke 13:22-30 Staying Alive Often the ‘narrow door’ that Jesus refers to is ourselves – or in other words, we can be the biggest obstacle in our own lives! We can become casual and unfocussed in our faith (“we once drank ate and drank in your company”) but perhaps we’ve become […]
Friday 26 October
Ephesians 4:1-6; Psalm 24; Luke 12:54-59 Discerning the Right Way It can be easy – perhaps too easy – to avoid responsibility for our decisions and actions by saying that we just rely on what the law (or its equivalent) tells us. True discernment – rather than simply pleasing ourselves – allows us to ‘interpret […]
Monday 15 October
ST TERESA OF avila Galatians 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1; Psalm 113; Luke 11:29-32 Hearing and Responding The story of the life of St Teresa of Avila is that of a woman who entered the Carmelites and, over the course of years, came to understand through prayer and reflection that God was calling her to an ever-closer relationship and […]
Thursday 11 October
Galatians 3:1-5; Canticle Luke 2:29-32; Luke 11:5-13 Always Ready to Respond Most of us would perhaps be very reluctant to disturb any of our friends in the middle of the night, unless it was a matter of extreme necessity. Certainly, needing to offer hospitality to a visitor probably wouldn’t qualify as grounds for disturbing another […]
A School for Prayer (15) – Lectio Divina
Subiaco – St Benedict Chartreuse – Guigo the Carthusian By Fr Craig Larkin SM, 1943 – 2015 FROM EAST TO WEST John Cassian Our study of the experience of prayer has kept us in the Eastern part of the Christian world: the Desert regions of Egypt, Palestine, Sinai and Syria. There were hermits living in […]
Saturday 29 September
Sts Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, Archangels Daniel 7:9-10 13-14; or Apocalypse 12:7-12; Psalm 138; John 1:47-51 Looking with love In Catholic tradition St. Michael is revered as the protector of the Church. Gabriel communicates important messages. His greeting to Mary lives on, repeated daily in the, “Hail Mary!” It is Gabriel who brings the gift […]
School for Prayer (13) Evagrius of Pontus (5) – The human person in Christ
By Fr Craig Larkin sm, 1943 – 2015 Putting it Together According to Evagrius’ teaching, the human person, with its strengths and struggles, can be illustrated like this: How the Logismoi operate The Fathers, following Evagrius, outline a number of ‘stages’ in the struggle with the logismoi. 1. Provocation – the logismos simply appears. 2. […]
About Mystery
Let’s start with a brief exercise. Look back over your life and recall a time (or times) when you found yourself overwhelmed by a sense that you were part of something much bigger than yourself or that something happened to you that was like a gift coming from beyond yourself or an ordinary event briefly […]
Thursday 26 July
Sts Joachim & Ann, Parents of Mary Ecclesiasticus 44:1,10-15; Psalm 132; Matthew 13:16-17 While we have only legend to tell us that persons called Joachim and Ann were the parents of Mary, we can be sure that the parents of Mary, whatever their names, raised her lovingly and as a faithful Jewish maiden. As grandparents […]
Wednesday 11 July
St Benedict, abbot Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8,12; Psalm 105; Matthew 10:1-7 Seek the Lord and his strength How appropriate it is to pray Psalm 105 on the feast of St Benedict. He is known as the father of monasticism because he established a way of life combining work and prayer based on the psalms. In his […]
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