Monasteries of the Heart

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The Erie Benedictines have launched an online community, named after Joan Chittister's latest book, Monasteries of the Heart. P...

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For what might have been...

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Check out Monasteries of the Heart, from the Erie Benedictine sisters, including Sr. Joan Chittister -- they are building an online ocmmunity steeped in Benedictine spirituality.

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Did the Woman Say

posted about 1 year ago | 1 comment
I have tried in vain to find out something about the woman who wrote this poem. To any expert sleuths out there who can find out something for me, a prize of undying gratitude!

This poem arrived in my Inbox on Good Friday last year, from someone ...

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Fr Ed Hayes--New Wineskins

posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
A Psalm of New Wineskins
by Ed Hays on Dec. 04, 2009
Spiritual Reflections

Comfortable and well-worn are my daily paths
whose edges have grown gray
with constant use.

My daily speech is a collection of old words
worn down at the heels
by repea...

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Judy Chicago prayer

posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
Judy Chicago Prayer

And then, all that has divided us will merge
And then compassion will be wedded to power
And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind
And then both men and women will be gentle
And then both women and men wi...

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Prayer for Healing

posted over 2 years ago, updated 9 days later | 1 comment
Prayer for Healing

In the comfort of Your love, O God, I give you thanks for the blessings of my life.

I pour out to You the memories that haunt me,
The anxieties that perplex me,
The fears that stifle me,
The sickness that prevails over me...

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On Living a Poem & On Teaching

posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 hour later | 0 comments
This poem reminded me of my first year of teaching, and the agony when the literature I loved was regarded as sheer torture by the teenagers sitting in front of me:

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(no title, by former poet laureate Billy Collins)

I ...

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