Tag: centering prayer
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Meeting with Sister Margaret
Forty-five minutes north of me, in Rock Island, Illinois, there is a Benedictine Monastery where the Sisters of St. Benedict live and run a retreat center. I have known of this monastery ever since I moved here and have even referred people to the sisters for spiritual direction, but never (in six years) had I…
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Praying for my Community
I pray before every faculty meeting here at my college. In this prayer, I seek to name the needs of my community. The rhythm of the academic world is unusual–a blazing fast pace throughout the year, with some halting, long breaks in between. Here, about two months into our first semester, we are already growing…
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about a daily spiritual practice
We can hardly get Christians today to observe a weekly spiritual practice, let alone daily. This was my response to the teacher of the meditation conference I was attending who claimed he had never visited a church that encouraged a daily spiritual practice. My teacher was a writer whose writing flourished once he embraced Buddhism…
Teri McDowell Ott 