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Communal contemplative prayer: some options

Use any of this alone or try it with a friend or two; see what happens.

The materials below are in a format that we often use on Tuesday evenings and Wednesday afternoons together (about an hour total each time; email if you might like to come).  Many more sources and approaches are here and here on this website.  Most of our past Sunday prayers are here. 

Angels - by Mary Oliver, thanks to Kathleen Cross
And the Table Will Be Wide - by Jan Richardson, thanks to Kathleen Cross
Back to the Past - by Amanda Gorman
A Brave and Startling Truth - by Maya Angelou
By breath we are one - by Sara Thomsen
Complex, unanswerable questions - by Sister Ellis McCulloh
Complex, unanswerable questions - by Sister Grace Marie Del Priore
Complex, unanswerable questions - by Sister Jane Aseltyne
Complex, unanswerable questions - by Sister Nicole Trahan
Every Craftsperson - Rumi
Fear is the cheapest room in the house - by Hafiz
The Guest House - by Rumi
Heavy - by Mary Oliver
i am a little church - by e. e.  cummings
Integrating our ways of knowing through encuentro - Sister Teresa Maya
Joy - by Margaret Wheatley
Keeping Quiet - Pablo Neruda
Legacies, Alliances, and Building a New World - Sr. Chris Koellhoffer and Sr. Kathleen Popko
Live the questions - by Rilke
One winter afternoon - e. e. cummings
Poustinia of the Heart - by Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Prophets - by Sister Sandra Schneider, OP
Prayer by Blessed John Henry Newman, shared by Shirley Haley - used 1/24-25/2023
Psalm 139 - Bernadette Farrell
Psalm 139 - Jerusalem Bible
A Song of Myself (excerpt) - by Walt Whitman
Spirit of God  - by Sr. Miriam Therese Winter (Please hear "man" as "we"; she wrote this many years ago.)
Staying power - Thomas Cullinan, OSB
Trasna - Sr. Raphael Considine
We travelers (a Sabbath poem) - Wendell Berry
The Welcoming Prayer - Fr. Thomas Keating
What I Want - Alicia Ostriker
What If - by Sr. Miriam Theresa Winter
Where I'm From - by George Ella Lyon
Worry and Integrating Our Ways of Knowing - Sister Teresa Maya

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  • Spirituality
    • An Active, Contemplative Life
    • Nonviolence
    • Prayers in Challenging Times >
      • Communal Contemplative Prayer options
    • Solidarity with Sisters Zoom prayer
    • Contemplation
    • Towards Spiritual Maturity
  • Community
  • Action
    • Active Love
    • Catholic Social Teaching
    • What Is Solidarity?
    • Ways to Act >
      • Spiritual Leadership
      • Dialogue That Transforms
      • Eco-Justice
      • Human Trafficking
      • Immigration
      • Racial Justice
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    • Contact Us
    • Solidarity with Sisters Actions
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