Spirituality
Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance … via email
* Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent * The Guardian, * Monday June 16 2008 For most people, messages from heaven are usually accompanied by choirs of angels, spectacular miracles or at least the odd burning bush. But one website says it will offer devout Christians a more prosaic mode of communication from the beyond – by […]
An Irish Blessing
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Blessing of a Home
(From my friend Simon): Leader: Peace be with this house and with all who live here. Blessed be the name of the Lord! Confession: Leader: We acknowledge that we stand on the land of which the Wurundjeri people have been custodians from time immemorial. May we work through what it means to claim ownership of […]
Prayers for a Privileged People
From a friend: Just wanted to draw your attention to Walter Brueggemann’s latest book “Prayers for a Privileged People” which is full of stunning, insightful, subversive, thought-provoking prayers from a First World perspective. It’s about praying with eyes wide open to our context of wealth, power and privilege and how we might pray our way […]
Celtic Blessing
From a friend: A worthwhile resource for anyone with an interest in Celtic prayers and blessings is Alexander Carmichael’s “Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations” which contains hundreds of items from the Scottish Highlands and Islands. There’s even a few household blessings – although the Highlanders/Islanders would have used them as a regular ward against evil […]
Saint Theresa’s Prayer
May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be […]
Larry Crabb: The Papa Prayer
By Amy Mozombite CBN.com — Prayer is my passion. Although I am not good at it and don’t fully understand it, I am growing in that discipline. So is Larry Crabb. From the first page of his latest book The PAPA Prayer, the reader connects with Crabb’s personal struggle with prayer over the years. As […]
Mosaic: Favourite Prayers and Reflections from Inspiring Australians
Rod Benson – Book Review Rosalind Bradley, Mosaic: Favourite Prayers and Reflections from Inspiring Australians (Sydney: ABC Books, 2008). Of the making of devotional anthologies there is no end. The human spirit is in need of continual refreshment & replenishment, and there are many sources from which gurus and devotees are both willing and able […]
Things Hidden (Richard Rohr)
“Quick! Tell me before I forget!” January 22, 2008 By Kerry Walters Toward the end of his marvelous Things Hidden, Richard Rohr tells an equally marvelous story. Parents bring home a newly-born baby. Their 4-year-old daughter insists on speaking to her new sibling–alone, she insists. The amused parents leave, but stand at the doorway for […]
Litanies of longing, lamentation and loving concern
From The Times March 7, 2008 Egeria the fourth century nun and the litany Geoffrey Rowell Around about the year 381, a nun called Egeria made the difficult journey from the Atlantic coast of Spain or France to the Middle East. She wrote of her pilgrimage in a vivid book of travels, describing how she […]
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