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I'm back from a summer break with a new series and today I'll tell you all about it. I hope the Grown-Up Catholicism series is a blessing to you!
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ
2. Video: How to hear from God through His Word, with Priscilla Shirer
3. Audio Book: Adult Christianity and How to Get There, by Ronald Rohlheiser, OFM and Richard Rohr, OFM
4. Book: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr, OFM
5. Article and Podcast: God is Always Talking to Us, with Beth Moore on Viral Jesus with Heather Thompson Day
6. Article: Lectio Divina Beginner's Guide from Busted Halo
This summer we are returning to a 2022 series on contemplation, and this week's episode is all about contemplating in church. Church can be a complicated place for a lot of us these days, but there is a richness to many church spaces that really can be a place for us to hear from God in a particular way. I do this episode is a blessing to you!
As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week eight is all about art. As you choose a piece of art to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Article: Heavenly Illumination: The Science and Magic of Stained Glass, from The Guardian
2. Article: Rose Windows of Notre Dame
3. History of Stations of the Cross, from Catholic Straight Answers
4. Journal prompts (while sitting in a church):
God, where are you directing my gaze in this church? What does this element have to say to me today?
What is my history within this space and in other churches? Can I gather in the goodness and light memories but also the pain? How does my history here impact how I see God and my life of faith in this moment?
God, I am here. What would you say to me today?
5. Song: In This Place, Trevor Thomson, Victoria Thomson
This summer we are returning to a 2022 series on contemplation, and this week's episode is all about contemplating art. I do hope it's a blessing to you!
As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week eight is all about art. As you choose a piece of art to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Documentary Series: Abstract: The Art of Design, on the role art plays in our everyday lives
2. Article: Top 10 Oldest Pieces of Art Every Discovered, by Ancient History Lists
3. Instagram Account: visual prayers by artist Scott Erickson
4. Wikipedia submission on The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, by John Singer Sargent
5. Find a transcript of this week's episode along with photos of the art I described on my blog, My Little Epiphanies
This summer we are revisiting a contemplation series from 2022 and this week we have an episode all about contemplating your miraculous body. I hope it's a blessing to you!
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Article: What Does it Mean to Crucify the Flesh, by gotquestions.org
2. Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel A. van der Kolk
3. Article: Body and Spirit As One, by Fr. Richard Rohr for Center for Action and Contemplation
4. Cover: I Hope You Dance, by Chris Stapleton
5. Video: 7 Minute Body Scan from The Mindful Christian
Romans 12:3-8
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
This summer we are revisiting a contemplation series from 2022 and this week we have an episode all about tactile prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you!
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Tactile prayer basics, from building faith: a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary
2. Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland from Boston Catholic Television
3. Song: If I Had a Hammer, by Sam Cooke
4. Song: On My Way, by Louis Armstrong
This summer we are revisiting a contemplation series from 2022 and this week we have an episode all about centering prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you!
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Centering prayer basics from Contemplative Outreach
2. Breath Prayer ideas from Soul Shepherding
3. Lyric video: Abide with Me, by Audrey Assad
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. The Undragoning of Eustace, by Jennifer Neyhart
2. Lectio Divina: A Beginner’s Guide, by Busted Halo
3. App: Laudate, an easy way to find the readings of the day (or a quick search will do the trick as well)
4. Book: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis (I highly recommend all of the Narnia series for reading by all ages – a beautiful parable of how God operates in our lives.)
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Fr. Richard Rohr
2. The Peach Truck – delivering joy since 2012 – perfect peaches and more
3. The Deep Contemplation of Nature, by Catholic Strength Blog
4. Song: Garden Song, by John Denver
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, MI by Jonathan B. Wright
2. Top Ten Mitch Albom books, by Ed A. Murray
3. Finding Chika, by Mitch Albom on Amazon
4. Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, lovely interview with Mitch Albom on Chika and other topics
5. Video: Animated explanation of the Hero’s Journey, by Matthew Winkler and Kirill Jeretsky
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Ave Verum Corpus, written by William Byrd and performed by Voices of Ascension Chorus
2. Ave Verum Corpus, written by Mozart and performed by Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
3. Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd: text, history and translation by Choral Public Domain Library
Primer on contemplation with lots more helpful resources: Raised Catholic episode 78: Contemplative Summer
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