Father Richard Rohr recommends an alternative take the Welcoming Prayer as a practice to help us surrender to God, Reality, and Love with each moment:   Spiritual teacher Mary Mrozowski (1926–1993) composed and first taught what is now called the Welcoming Prayer... The Welcoming Prayer helps us find...

Imagine being incarcerated for decades! How would one find a sense of purpose to go on living? A program in the Missouri Department of Corrections, called RESTORATIVE JUSTICE is in place at various...

Matthew 24 :35:36   …….”I was……..in prison and you came to see me.” Last December, I was invited to attend the Christmas Mass and luncheon with the Catholic inmates incarcerated at Potosi Correctional Facility - a maximum security prison for men, most of whom are in prison for life, going through the appeals process or waiting to be executed if their appeal has been denied.  ...

The Welcoming Prayer is described as “a method of consenting to God’s presence and action in our physical and emotional reactions” [emphasis added]. The prayer boldly asks us to “feel and sink into” our emotions and our body-based reactions to those emotions. This can be challenging when our prayer practice allows fear, shame, trauma, and the other wounds of life to surface, yet these wounds need to be...

This week, we shine a spotlight on an opportunity for prayer: DO YOU HAVE DAYTIME AVAILABILITY? ALL ARE INVITED TO PRAY WITH US Join our Zoom Contemplative Prayer Meeting Mondays 2:45 to 4:00 pm...

Damon Thibodeaux spent 15 years in solitary confinement on death row for a murder he did not commit.  He was allowed out of his cell for one hour each day to sit in the hallway or walk in a yard the size of a dog pen!  In 2012, he became...

Last week, this space shared a description of The Welcoming Prayer, as explained by Contemplative Outreach. Key to the description is that The Welcoming Prayer is “a method of consenting to God’s presence and action” [emphasis added]. This language of consent acknowledges God as the prime actor in our prayer. Indeed, it is fundamental to our understanding of God that all relationship with the Divine is initiated by...