A Moment Aside with the Beloved: 12-minute Guided Meditation

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Contemplative at Home

Lissy Clarke

40 episodes

1 week ago

Inspired by Lectio Divina and the Collatio, this podcast offers the listener sessions of guided, meditative, listening prayer around different passages of scripture.

Each episode will take you in to a deep place of listening in the Lord's presence where you will hear a gospel story read very slowly so that you can savour each word, imagine the scene vividly and perhaps even discern what the Holy Spirit is speaking into your own life through the text.

This prayer experience is ideal if you would like to interact with the Bible in a new way, deepen your prayer life, or understand Gods love for you more fully.

If you find Lectio Divina beneficial in a group but struggle to do it on your own, this podcast will provide the guidance you need.

Each episode will begin with a brief introduction to the text, guide the listener into a deep place of prayer, read the passage very slowly, twice, and then offer some questions for reflection or journaling.

For more information visit our website at contemplativeathome.com

I wish to thank and acknowledge Fr Finbarr Lynch SJ of Manresa House, Dublin who introduced and instructed me in the Collatio, from which all that I share with you in this podcast is derived.

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A Moment Aside with the Beloved: 12-minute Guided Meditation

Contemplative at Home

11 minutes 39 seconds

10 months ago

A Moment Aside with the Beloved: 12-minute Guided Meditation

This guided meditation offers you a quiet pause to reconnect with your breath, the Presence of Love, and the question “What is Your will for me for the next few hours?”

This might be a little prayer you make at midday, or a few times throughout the day, though there is no incorrect time to pause for this prayer.

The meditation has three movements

* To check in with yourself, feel your breath and your grounded connection in this moment

* To gaze at God as God Lovingly gazes at you

* To ask God: what is your will for me for the next few hours?

It is a little check-in, informed by these words which have caught my attention this week:

“A contemplative is never to be resigned to God’s will, but to will It. That is, to want It.” – Finbarr Lynch, SJ, “When You Can’t Pray”

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2

“Planted like a tree in the spring of life, a deeds of a soul in grace delight both the human and the divine.” – Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle (Tr Mirabai Starr)

Sometimes we think of our our “deeds” or God’s “will” as pertaining only to big, sweeping actions, but as I navigate the movements of my ordinary days, I find that there is often a deep yes to be found in even the tiniest of decisions.

All blessings dearest ones.

Lissy

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.

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