An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
In response to my recent post, Solitude for Ourselves and Others, a reader commented, …there is a particular radio talk show that i frequently listen to in which the host advocates a meditation exercise called “be still and know”…his listeners…
Read More Solitude for Ourselves And Others Revisited
In a previous post I mentioned Father Lazarus, a hermit on the mountain of St. Anthony. His life is one of detachment, silence, and solitude. Those things are not about absence but rather presence. They are practices and ways of…
"But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret" (Matthew 6:6). This may be fulfilled by us as follows: we make our request within our room when, drawing…
Read More Pray in Silence – St. John Cassian
A new liturgical year begins this coming Sunday, November 29, 2009, with the First Sunday of Advent. The Season of Advent consists of the four Sundays before Christmas. The liturgical color for Advent is purple or sometimes blue. We will…
Read More The Season of Advent – Holy Waiting and Watching
Isidore said: Prayer is a work of the heart, not of the lips. For God does not pay attention to the words of the one who is praying to him, but rather to his or her heart. It is better…
Read More Better the Silence of the Heart than Distracted Words
Today, March 19, the Episcopal Church celebrates the life and faith of St. Joseph. St. Joseph was raised up to be the guardian of God's incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother. The gospel reading for this feast…
If the heart is the most authentic temple of God, the truest dwelling place of God, then it is also our true home. It is the deepest and most authentic part of our humanity, the place of wholeness and integration.…
Read More Entering the Temple of the Heart
Interrupting the Silence 