Month: November 2020
Updated on November 26, 2020
Poem for the First Sunday of Advent
Wachet Auf (Wake up!) Advent. Season when Dual citizenship Holds us in Awkward tension. The world, intent on Spending Christmas, Eats and drinks its way to Oblivion after dinner. The Kingdom sounds Insistent warnings: Repent, be ready, Keep awake, …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Gratitude Meditation
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Gratitude_Meditation-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedRegistration for the virtual Advent retreat closes this Sunday, 29 November. If you’re hoping to join us please sign up as soon as possible! Dear Friends In what has been …
Updated on November 19, 2020
Poem for Christ the King Sunday
The Kingdom It’s a long way off but inside it there are quite different things going on; festivals at which the poor man is king and the consumptive is healed; mirrors in which the blind look at themselves …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Ephesians 1 Christ the King
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Eph_1_Christ_the_King.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Register for the Contemplative at Home Advent Retreat here! Further details can be found on this page. Hello Friends, In this episode we pray with Ephesians 1:17-23. These verses …
Updated on November 12, 2020
Poem for the Second Sunday before Advent
Sacred Messenger Out in the bay, unsettling asone gleaming fin breaks the surface,then the curved black back. Close now the great animal’s eye holds minewith acceptance and questioning;could I even say love? Perhaps the bearer of a gift, …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Galatians 5 FRUIT
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Gal_5_Spiritual_Fruit.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedADVENT and CHRISTMAS RETREAT with Lissy on Zoom begins December 1st 2020. More information here. You are warmly welcome. In Galatians 5 Paul contrasts the instincts of the flesh/ego with …
Updated on January 14, 2021
Advent Retreat
UPDATE: Registration for this retreat is now closed. If you’d like receive links to the recordings of each session, which will be emailed on Wednesdays and will be available to view for one week, please use this link …
Updated on November 5, 2020
Poem For Remembrance Sunday
By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,and confidently waiting come what may,we know that God is with us night and morningand never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented,still evil …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Meditation with John 20 PEACE
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Imaginative_Meditation_with_John_20_PEACE.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn this episode I invite you to enter one of my favourite gospel stories in your imagination. John 20:19-23 finds the disciples locked in fear in the upper room, unsure …
Updated on October 30, 2020
Poem for All Saints and All Souls Day
There is a placeThere is a place prepared for little children,those we once lived for, those we deeply mourn,those who from play, from learning and from laughtertoo soon were torn. There is a place where hands which held …