Contemplative at Home

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. In this episode we return to the story of the man lowered through the roof by his friends, and engage our sense of sight – being mindful of what and how Jesus saw. We pray with Mark 2:1-...

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. In this episode, we pray with Psalm 91: (1-6) Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fort...

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. In this meditation, we pray with some of the opening verses of Psalm 51, words David wrote after a visit from the prophet Nathan, after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. This...

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. In this 20 minute meditation, we pray with Psalm 139:1-5 and 13-18 from the NRSV: "O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my...

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. In Psalm 81:1-10, the psalmist reminds us to give thanks and worship God, to remember all that good that you have known, all the good that God has done. There is indeed mystery (an unkno...

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. In Psalm 71;1-6, the Psalmist cries out to the Lord to rescue, to deliver, to save. I wonder what has you 'in its grip' this week – what you need to be saved from just now? Is it a parti...

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. This is a meditation on Psalm 80:1-2 and 8-19. "Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, the stock that your right hand planted." For more i...

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. In this episode we meditate with the words of Psalm 33:12-22. "A king is not saved by his great army... truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, who hope in his steadfast love...

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. Today we meditate with Psalm 107 verses 1-9 and 43. "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story— Let them give thank...

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. In this meditation on Psalm 85 we hear the words of one who remembers God's mercy, and calls on God to return again with love and faithfulness, righteousness and peace. This may be a hel...

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. This is a meditation with Psalm 82. "How long will youdefend the unjust     and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the weak and the fatherless;     uphold the cause of the poor and th...

In this 20 minute meditation we take time to observe the life that bursts forth at every moment, and then meditate on Psalm 66:1-8. This Psalm is part of the lectionary for Sunday 7 July 2019. 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 D...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. In this 20 minute session of guided prayer, we meditate on Psalm 16. I say to the Lord, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing." Those who run after other gods will suffe...

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. "As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is...

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. In this episode I offer you an Examen, which can be used to review your experience of Lent and Eastertide this year, or can just be used to review the past several months. "Holy ground i...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. "When the day of Pentecost had come they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they wer...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. We continue through Acts during Eastertide, today stopping in Acts 16:25-34 with Paul and Silas who have been put into prison after freeing an enslaved girl from a demon. The themes of...

On Thursday 30 May, 40 days after Easter, we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus. In Acts 1:3-11, Jesus points his friends to the ways in which he will remain with them, urging them stay present to his leading moment by moment as they wait on the Holy Spirit. " After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. In this season of Easter, we continue to pray with the book of Acts. Today we pray with Acts 16:9-15, and we join Paul and his friends who respond immediately to a vision which they int...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. In this season of Easter, we pray with passages from the book of Acts. In Acts 9:36-43 we find ourselves at home with Tabitha, a disciple of Jesus who is notable for her generosity and...

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. During the season of Easter, Contemplative at Home will pray with stories from the book of Acts. In this episode we pray with Saul, a socially privileged young Pharisee who is intoxicate...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. In John 20, the disciples are still in the upper room, locked in fear and confusion. In this episode we join them as Jesus appears among them. In his book on the Spiritual Exercises, Ke...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. On Palm Sunday, through Holy Week and from Easter Sunday until Easter Tuesday, Contemplative at Home will publish a daily episode, re-released from the 2018 Lent series. We are invited...

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being borne out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. Christ is Risen! But his friends are still grieving, bewildered, disorientated. Join Mary, Mary and Salome as they bring spices to anoint the body for burial. On Palm Sunday, through Ho...

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. On Good Friday, we follow the example of the women at the cross, and remain as present to Jesus in his suffering as we are able. Contemplative at Home is republishing the 2018 Lent serie...