Holy Spirit of God: I belong to your Life. I wish to feel the strength of your connection to me in the silence. I wish to deepen this ancient belonging with the power of daily practices so to feel the risen life and peace of Christ in the cadence of my day. You connect me to the [...]
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For the first time, Tim Cook’s sermons are now available in book form. You Hold Us While We Grow is an important celebration of Tim’s significant contribution to contemplative Christianity in our era. Timely, poignant and personal, Tim’s sermons and prayers are a witness to God’s love and unending desire for our personal healing, growth [...]
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Please read this prayer poem set to the song “Spiegel Im Spiegel” performed by Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe from the CD Sacred Treasures IV: Choral Masterworks: Quiet Prayers This year I buried three friends, not even yet old. Another friend, a minister, spent Good Friday afternoon bedside with Robert dying of cancer. Still, I am told Easter happened. Perhaps [...]
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In this sermon preached on Palm Sunday, April 1, 2012 at Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church, pastor Peter T. Haas uses the earth’s relationship to the sun as an analogy for our relationship with Jesus the Christ. The sermon was inspired by a talk given by Abbot Joseph Boyle, of St. Benedict’s Monastery. The Light of [...]
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“The God of curved space, the dry God, is not going to help us, but the son whose blood splattered the hem of his mother’s robe.” – Jane Kenyon, Looking at Stars May the Spirit of God enable us to feel deeper than words and ideas the profundity of Love that absorbed the worst of [...]
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“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.” – C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, p. 98. In a way, we are all Christians because of Judas Iscariot. He played a difficult but important role in [...]
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And now O God of perfect timing, enter into each of our hearts and find the city-center in us ready to receive and surrender to your love in its embodied form and eternal formlessness . This city-center is the temple of our heart, mind and soul, today set apart to celebrate your arrival. We have [...]
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Moment Six: Agony “The God of curved space, the dry God, is not going to help us, but the son whose blood splattered the hem of his mother’s robe.” – Jane Kenyon, Looking at Stars “Christ on the Mount of Olives,” by El Greco, 1541-1614, (Toledo, Ohio), The Toledo Museum of Art Opening Prayer: May [...]
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Moment Five: Betrayal “The Taking of Christ” National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin c. 1602 Opening Prayer: Most gracious, compassionate and loving God. We praise you for your everlasting faithfulness in spite of all we do to separate ourselves from you. We thank you for your grace and love when we stumble or even walk away [...]
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Moment Four: Triumph “Entry into Jerusalem,” 12th Century Mosaic, S. Marco, Venice Opening Prayer: Holy Spirit of God open my heart and mind to see who I am in the light of Your Truth. Where I need to grow, grant me grace. Where I need to heal, grant me patience. Where I need to be [...]
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