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First in our hearts
First in our hearts
by Michael Docker
First in our hearts, we would praise as the magi Praised as they saw all your glory around; First of the ones who are born into freedom, Through you we offer the love we have found. First of the days when the world found its freedom We come to worship on this day of all; First in…
Advent Confession
Advent Confession
by Richard Steel
A short responsive confession focusing on the important things in relation to God and other people. Advent Confession Lord, in the midst of all the preparation for Christmas let me concentrate on the important things: - the people I love. May I not get frustrated or angry with t…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 17 Hospitality
The Monastery Of The Heart - 17 Hospitality
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Hospitality “Once guests have been announced, meet them with all the courtesy of love.” It is possible, of course, to make community out of “our kind of people,” out of people who look like us and think like us and have the same backgrounds we do… Taken from The Monastery Of The …
The Monastery Of The Heart - 13 Good Work
The Monastery Of The Heart - 13 Good Work
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Good Work “When they live by the labour of their hands, then they are really monastics.” Prayer and contemplation, Benedict is clear, are no substitute for work. Nor are they an excuse to detach ourselves from the holy act of human responsibility for making the world go round… Ta…
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
by SPCK - David Adam
Thanksgiving The psalmist says, ‘Come into his gates with thanksgiving, enter his courts with praise.’ One of the easiest ways to seek God is to think and thank; literally to count your blessings, to see the world as His creation, to see your life, and your eternal life, as in Hi…
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A