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Meditation and Contemplative Prayer.

A very good read, for meditation and instruction is the old favorite, by an unknown mystic of the 14th century called, "The Cloud of Unknowing" and "The Book of Privy Counseling". They are two small...

Started by rolcam (12519) • 1 response • Last response by anilsharmacool (156) • 2 years ago
 

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Renunciation of Thoughts

by Michael E. Miller, for the International Federation of St. Bruno Yahoo GroupThe life of monks can include the renunciation of destructive thoughts that can lead to destructive desires. This is...

Started in Vivificat! • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, reflections, catholic living, monasticism

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Silence is something more than just a pause

Pico IyerSilence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear...

Started in Vivificat! • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, enlightened words, lent, monasticism

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I purchased a new rosary today...

IAve Maria!I bought it because I liked how its big beads felt in my fingers, its brown color and its Benedictine medals. This Rosary will always be with me and I will pray it as often as I can.This...

Started in Vivificat! • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, theo's family news, catholic living

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Book Review: An Infinity of Little Hours

Reality, not hagiography. This is the best way to describe An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order, by Nancy Klein...

Started in Vivificat! • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, book reviews, monasticism

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What is prayer?

Prayer is but the quest for the face of God. It is the primary classroom where we meet Love in person as the Teacher who instructs us on how to Love Him and each other. The lessons are often...

Started in Vivificat! • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, catholic living, personal reflections

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Podcast: Lectio Divina of Psalm 10

Brothers and Sisters, I present to you a lectio divina or "divine reading" of Psalm 10 as prayed in two parts in the Office of Readings for the first Tuesday of the Psalter. You may listen to it by...

Started in Vivificat! • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, podcasts, lectio divina, liturgy of the hours, bible studies

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Achieving "purity of mind" according to Dom Vitalis Lehodey

Folks, lately I’ve been learning about the obstacles we place on the way of interior prayer. I’ve been reading a book by the late Dom Vitalis Lehodey, once the Trappist abbot of the Abbey of...

Started in Vivificat! • 8 months ago • 0 responses
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The Hermitess of Mill Creek

Folks, I want to invite you to read a great article published recently in the Catholic Digest, What I learned from the hermitess of Mill Creek, about Sister Joan Sutherland (pictured right), a...

Started in Vivificat! • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, catholic living, vocations

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Praying properly according to Pope Benedict XVI

Folks, I've just finished reading the latest Encyclical Letter from the Holy Father, Spes Salvi. It is full of light. I think that it would be presumptuous of me to offer a standard critique of all...

Started in Vivificat! • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, enlightened words, papacy

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Michael Krahn and Thomas Merton

Folks, though separated by both space, time, and death from Thomas Merton, Michael Krahn - much like myself - considers the late Trappist monk a spiritual mentor. Mike decided to write extensively...

Started in Vivificat! • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, thomas merton, benedictines, monasticism, blogs and blogging