Month: March 2021

The Way of the Cross

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/way_of_the_cross_final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDear Friends, This is a special edition of Contemplative at Home, offering you imaginative contemplation with the 15 stations on The Way of the Cross, written by the Church of …

Poem for Palm Sunday

Dear Friends, This concludes Tina’s weekly poem offering. What a gift this poetic ministry has been as we’ve travelled through the COVID wilderness. Many, many thanks to Tina for the manna she has shared with us all. I …

Imaginative Contemplation: Mary Anoints Jesus

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Imaginative_Contemplation_Mary_Anoints_Jesus.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedLooking towards the events of Holy Week, we are now with Jesus just outside Jerusalem, in Bethany, at the home of his friends Mary, Martha and their recently risen brother, …

Poem for Passion Sunday

Tina’s penultimate poem offering for us! On His Blindness When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with …

Imaginative Contemplation Healing Jairus’ Daughter

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/imaginative_contemplation_jairus_daughter_-_18-03-2021_16.41.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI wonder how you have found our Lenten sessions of imaginative contemplation? If you’re still trying to connect with this way of praying, you might find this article from the …

Poem For Mothering Sunday

Afterwards The principalities, the powers, the politicians,The ones who pose in the spotlightCentre-stage, and magnetise us as they stalkTowards bankruptcy, murder, betrayal, suicide,And other traditional exits The audience leaves, discussing nuances.A scatter of sweet-papers, ash,Smells hanging around behind. …

Imaginative Contemplation with the Woman Hemorrhaging

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Imaginative_Contemplation_Woman_Hemorrhaging.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn this episode, we consider the woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years. After a prayerful listen to the account in Luke 8, we imagine ourselves approaching Jesus in …

Poem for the Third Sunday of Lent

i thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today,and …

Lent Quiet Morning

To register this event, please follow this link. Please note this will take place on Saturday morning UK time, so unfortunately won’t be suitable for North American guests. If you’re interested in receiving a recording of the sessions, …

Imaginative Contemplation – Rich Young Man

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Imaginative_Contemplation_Rich_Young_Man_-_04-03-2021_17.18.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedThis imaginative contemplation with Mark 10:17-31 was written by the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, and is shared with you here by their kind permission. …