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Prayer for the Road

Catherine Smith2020-02-27T13:31:58-04:00Categories: Lent, Prayers|Tags: authenticity, Confession, freedom, intention, Journey, Lent, prayer|

God of setting out and arrival and the road between, we lay down, with reverent attention those things that we have taken up to protect us [...]

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A Lenten Prayer of Invitation

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:40-04:00Categories: Lent|Tags: Contemplative, Lent, prayer, Rilke|

Come Work your hands in the clay of your heart Shape of this moment a sheer cavern for Love resonant […]

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Heart to Heart: Lent One

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:40-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: heart, Ignatian Contemplation, Lent, Prayer practice|

  I'm keeping company this Lent with a group of wise women.  We're considering courage, from the old French word coeur meaning 'heart'.  We're coming together [...]

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Heartbreak: Lent Two

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:40-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: compassion, Gethsemane, Heartbreak, Lent, Scripture|

Our small Lenten community this week sought to accompany the Compassionate One through heartbreak that is ours and his.  We considered the words of poet [...]

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Lent Five: Hearts Looking

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Francis of Assisi, Lent, risk, seeing, Zacchaeus|

  This week we gathered around the story of Zacchaeus, another story of heart and seeing. We reflected on a Zacchaeus sermon Seeing Saints which you [...]

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