For much of the Christian church, last Sunday was Ascension Sunday. It is a bittersweet day. The party is over. No way to be sure if they even knew it was coming, since he foretold his death and his ...

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Today we will talk about the form of prayer called meditation. For a Christian, to “meditate” is to seek meaning: it implies placing oneself before the immense ...

"Especially in the voracious Western world, people seek meditation because it represents a high barrier against the daily stress and emptiness that is everywhere". But "we must always remember that ...

I knew that Rowan Williams, once the Archbishop of Canterbury, knew a lot about Eastern Christian practice, but I did not know that he begins his day with the Jesus Prayer. More: Readers of Salinger’s ...

In Buddhist terms, Jesus was the variety of saint known as the bodhisattva. The term means "awakened being." Doctrinally, a bodhisattva is a Buddhist adept who vows to never cease teaching the middle ...

Series two of our meditations commences a longer and more in depth treatment of the schools of meditation introduced in series one. In this second series over seven weeks, London-based monk Laurence ...

Christian Meditation with Benedictine monk, Dom Laurence Freeman who will be visiting Sydney during the week of World Youth Day This meditation continues a longer and more in depth treatment of one ...

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, presents Lenten meditations for members of the Roman Curia and Vatican employees in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Feb. 26, 2021. “The ...

A lynch mob went after Jesus because of his first homily, which came straight from the sacred writings (Luke 4:16-30). Jesus, the man of the scriptures, who quoted the Bible at the drop of a hat. On ...