Contemplative at Home

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. Every day this week, Contemplative at Home will re-release an episode from the 2018 Lent series. In Holy Week se are invited to be present to Jesus even as he suffers. May this prayer e...

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. Every day this week, Contemplative at Home will re-release an episode from the 2018 Lent series. In Holy Week se are invited to be present to Jesus even as he suffers. May this prayer e...

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. Every day this week, Contemplative at Home will re-release an episode from the 2018 Lent series. In Holy Week se are invited to be present to Jesus even as he suffers. May this prayer e...

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. Every day this week, Contemplative at Home will re-release an episode from the 2018 Lent series. In Holy Week se are invited to be present to Jesus even as he suffers. May this prayer e...

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. Every day this week, Contemplative at Home will re-release an episode from the 2018 Lent series. In Holy Week se are invited to be present to Jesus even as he suffers. May this prayer e...

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. This episode concludes our series in the Message translation of the sermon on the mount, and if you have been praying along with it, you might want to review the nuggets of truth that h...

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. Continuing in the Message translation of the Sermon on the Mount, in these verses from Matthew chapter 7 Jesus challenges us: to be straightforward with the Lord "Don't bargain with God...

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. "Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticise their faults— unless, of course, you want that same treatment. It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbour's face and at the sam...

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. Jesus reminds of the incredible attention God has given to the appearance of the wildflowers, and points us to how much more God will provide for us. We are invited to shift our attenti...

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 prayerful meditation on Jesus' teaching from the Sermon on the Mount, we reflect on his invitation to invest our hearts, minds, time and energy in the spiritual realm, rather th...

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 prayerfully listen to Jesus teaching us how to pray, and how to fast. "This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God...

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. "And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play befor...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. "I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. Respond with the energies of prayer." In this episode we pray mindfully and imaginatively with Jesus' words from the Sermon on the Mount at the end of Matthew 5. For more information and show note...

"When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong" (Matthew 5, the Message) I'm re-reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe right now – both aloud to the kids at bedtime (pure joy!) and for myself along with the thoughtful ladies over at the Abiding Together podcast.  Do you remember when Edmund comes out of the wardrobe for the first time, and then tells the others he and Lucy had...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. I love the way that Jesus calls us in, calls us deeper, calls us home to our hearts to examine and shake out our thoughts, renewing our perspective. Throughout the sermon on the mount Jesus challenges us to get thoughtful and wholehearted with regard to the 'rules'. "You're familiar wi...

"Long after stars burn out and earth wears out, God's law will be alive and working" - Matt 5, the Message I wonder what you instinctively believe about the Law? Is it about restriction and oppression, or is it about freedom and life? Does it strike you as a list of rules or something much deeper? St Ignatius wrote that "There are very few people who realise what God would make of them if they aba...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. A few years ago, Pope Francis suggested six beatitudes for "a modern era". I found them compelling and I thought it would be interesting to prayerfully consider whether the Lord wanted to speak to us in a new way through them. In this meditation, we will pray with this text in lieu of...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. We will be journeying through the sermon on the mount in the Message translation for the next while, and today we look at the way it opens: with the beatitudes. You'll be invited to imagine yourself walking up a hillside with Jesus as we deepen for prayer, then listening to what he has...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. "Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world" - Matthew 5, the Message You're here to be light. Today we consider what it looks li...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. As the season of Christmas comes to a close, we pray with an imaginitive contemplation on the nativity. This guided meditation was written by Jerry Webber at Only A Sojourner. http://onlyasojourner.blogspot.com/ Jerry has very kindly given me permission to record it for you. I have fou...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. The fourth candle in the advent wreath is known as the angel candle, representing peace. In this meditation we prayerfully listen to Isaiah 11 "a shoot shall come out of the stump of Jesse" followed by an imaginative contemplation of the angels' proclamation: "Peace to everyone everywh...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. For the third week of advent, I'm trying something new,  an imaginative contemplation, a guided play in our imaginations through the images of  Isaiah 9:2-7, merged with the parallel story of the angels singing glory to the shepherds on the hillside. This engagement with prayer is diff...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. Now is the time of preparation. While the practical preparations can be all-consuming before Christmas (!), today's meditation offers you 15 minutes to reflect on the spiritual preparation for the coming of the Christ child. Lighting the second candle on the advent wreath, we mediate o...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. ADVENT 2018 The first candle of the Advent wreath is known as the Prophecy Candle, which represents hope.  We follow this theme and welcome Ceri Durrant's joyful reading of Isaiah 35 (The Message). For more information please visit www.contemplativeathome.com or find us on Facebook. Mu...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. This mindful session of Lectio Divina rests with one short verse, "Come to me all you who are weary, and I will give you rest" Matt 11:28. This meditation is brought to you by David Pettifor, a retired Church of England priest who has long been involved in spirituality work. In a depar...