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Midday Prayer: Solitude, Community, and Ministry

Silence, Stillness, and Centering before GodĀ (2 minutes) Scripture Reading ā€“ Luke 6:12-18 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostlesā€¦He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon. Devotional This is a beautiful storyā€¦Jesus spent the night in solitude with God. In the morning, he gathered his apostles around him and formed community. In the afternoon, with his apostles, he went out and preached the Word and healed the sick. Notice the order ā€“ from solitude to community to ministry. So often in ministry, I have wanted to do it myself. If it. Read more.

Midday Prayer: Solitude, Community, and Ministry

Silence, Stillness, and Centering before GodĀ (2 minutes) Scripture Reading ā€“ Luke 6:12-18 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostlesā€¦He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon. Devotional This is a beautiful storyā€¦Jesus spent the night in solitude with God. In the morning, he gathered his apostles around him and formed community. In the afternoon, with his apostles, he went out and preached the Word and healed the sick. Notice the order ā€“ from solitude to community to ministry. So often in ministry, I have wanted to do it myself. If it. Read more.

Midday Staff Prayer — Julian of Norwich

NLF Staff Midday Prayer Sept. 26, 2012 Stillness and Silence – 2 minutes to be still First Reading: Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ps. 146 1 Praise theĀ Lord.Praise theĀ Lord,Ā my soul. 2 I will praise theĀ LordĀ all my life;I will sing praiseĀ to my God as long as I live.3 Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings,Ā who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. 5 Blessed are thoseĀ whose helpĀ is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in theĀ LordĀ their God 6 He is the Maker of heavenĀ and earth, the sea, and everything in themā€”he remains faithfulĀ foreverā€¦TheĀ LordĀ lifts up those who are bowed down… TheĀ LordĀ reignsĀ forever,Ā  your God, O Zion, for all generations.Ā  Praise theĀ Lord. Second Reading – Lamentations 3: 21-27 21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of theĀ Lordā€™s great loveĀ we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They. Read more.

Four Days with the Trappists: Part 2

While I am a high extrovert who gathers energy from being with people, I love silence.Ā  So the highlight, up till now on my yearly visits to the Trappists has been the rhythms of the Daily Office, especially Vigils at 3:30 in the morning! And when the chants conclude at about 4:10 am, I generally go back to my ā€œcellā€ and try to follow them in meditation and prayer until Lauds (the 2nd office of the day) at 6 am. I love their emphasis on the ordinary, the obscure and simplicity of work. This year, however, God met me very powerfully in a new way ā€“ through my spiritual direction and conferences with Father Dominic, the prior of the monastery.Ā  The prior would be like the COO or executive pastor of a large church. Formerly a professor at Georgetown University and a Dominican priest, he joined the Trappists 26 years ago to focus on. Read more.