Location:
United States
Description:
Lectio Divina for Modern Life
Language:
English
Contact:
6143067079
Website:
https://www.readpraywrite.com
Email:
jean3girls@gmail.com
Episodes
Finding Self in the Inner Sanctuary
4/18/2024
In a place of sacred pause, calm, and clarity, you can find yourself.
Duration:00:10:10
Good Friday Mediation: Admitting Fault is Restorative
3/29/2024
We atone, but always with hope in the Resurrection. How do you approach God: with confidence in his mercy or temerity?
Duration:00:08:59
Have No Desire to be Perfect
3/11/2024
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.
Duration:00:10:48
Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping
2/4/2024
Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.
Duration:00:10:28
Love, Pray, Listen, then let prodigal children go
1/15/2024
We wait for our adult kids. And we rely on the Father, who understands. After all,. we also were wayward prodigals once, living for our whims.
Duration:00:08:57
Listening for the holy means accepting others as beloved.
12/15/2023
"It was not until I lost my hearing that I started learning to listen ."
Duration:00:11:07
Speak with Love, not Judgement
11/13/2023
Love of neighbor requires holding our tongue and not correcting others, says Catherine of Sienna and this month's author.
Duration:00:09:50
Pray: Even negative emotions can be welcomed as guests
10/9/2023
Ancient poet, Rumi, encourages us to accept all emotions as bearers of wisdom.
Duration:00:08:52
Pray: Tears are a Gift
9/15/2023
Tears can be holy water if we are brave enough to share our grief and joy and ecstasy and despair with others.
Duration:00:09:49
A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]
8/4/2023
A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.
Duration:00:09:15
Pray: Death teaches love & how to “be”
4/4/2023
Two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a journalist—ponder the universal questions about the meaning of life through death.
Duration:00:07:50
Pray: No one is excluded from God’s love & mercy.
3/21/2023
Inclusion, an act of mercy, is manifested in opening one’s arms wide to welcome without excluding or labeling others--Pope Francis
Duration:00:06:45
Pray: Resist obstacles to love with new habits
1/17/2023
Those on the path toward greater spiritual freedom and love find strength in a very undramatic and almost unnoticeable ways when they avoid letting egos and self-preoccupations to take over.
Duration:00:07:43
Finding Hope in Encounter with Christ
12/13/2022
Thomas Merton reminds us that “True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope.”
Duration:00:06:25
Pray: Untie knots with Mary’s healing
11/22/2022
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.
Duration:00:07:17
Pray: Grace is found in honoring the dead
10/30/2022
Christ died and was buried in all of us. Every time you do something physically to honor a deceased person you are performing a work of mercy.
Duration:00:08:00
Pray: Finding a Home at God’s Altar
7/26/2022
Psalm 84 encourages us to find a home with God.
Duration:00:07:39
Father's Day: Return of the Prodigal Son
6/18/2022
This reading reminds not just fathers and sons, but also mothers, daughters and all those who parent or are parented that God the Father awaits our return from loneliness, anger, jealousy and desolation with His ever-ready blessing.
Duration:00:07:01
Pray: Our Mother, Jesus
5/17/2022
In this month of Mary, one holy woman reminds us that Jesus is our Mother, too
Duration:00:06:28
Pray: A Plea for Help
3/13/2022
In her desperate plea, Queen Esther recognizes that only the Lord can help relieve our deepest pain.
Duration:00:07:29