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Wednesday, Fourth week of Lent
"Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5 "By Moonlight", 1994, Margaret Neve We surrender to joy:...
Mar 30, 20226 min read


Tuesday, fourth week of Lent
"Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5 "Baby in Red Chair", c. 1810-30, unknown artist The very...
Mar 29, 20222 min read


Monday, Fourth Week of Lent
"Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5 "Rainbow Landscape", c. 1636, Peter Paul Rubens Rubens is...
Mar 28, 20222 min read


Saturday, Third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 March 25th...
Mar 26, 20221 min read


Friday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Allegory:...
Mar 25, 20224 min read


Thursday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "The Silence",...
Mar 23, 20222 min read


Wednesday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Interior",...
Mar 22, 20221 min read


Tuesday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Amédée-David,...
Mar 22, 20225 min read


Monday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Composition in...
Mar 21, 20224 min read


Saturday, "Meditate in your heart...and be still" Psalm 4:4
"White Lilac", 1882-83, Edouard Manet In a crystal vase, bathed in sunlight, Manet's White Lilac has no function except to exist. In the...
Mar 19, 20222 min read


Friday, "Meditate in your heart...and be still" -Psalm 4:4
"Still Life with Ginger Pot II", 1911-12, Piet Mondrian To know what matters and what does not is the lesson that we long to be taught....
Mar 18, 20222 min read


Thursday, "Meditate in your heart...and be still" Psalm 4:4
"Queen's House" Greenwich II, 1978, Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson has taken as his special theme the way light shines on emptiness. The...
Mar 17, 20222 min read


Wednesday "Meditate in your heart...and be still" -Psalm 4:4
"St Catherine of Alexandria" (cropped), c.1507. Raphael What matters is not stillness itself, which can be merely physical, but what we...
Mar 16, 20223 min read


Tuesday, "Meditate in your heart and be still..." Psalm 4:4
"Epiphany", 1990 Robert Natkin Only the abstract can attempt to show us light in itself, free from any material context. This is pure...
Mar 14, 20222 min read


Contemplation
"Meditation in your heart....and be still." -Psalm 4:4 The gate that silence opens up within us leads to light. Light exposes with an...
Mar 14, 20222 min read


Saturday "For God alone my soul waits in silence"
"Three Greys" by Yuko Shiraishi Wendy Beckett closes this week of reflection with a thought to Silence and time. A quick glance at the...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Friday "For God alone my soul waits in silence"
"Untitled H30" (diptych) 1993, Rebecca Salter Sister Wendy writes, Silence is a paradox, intensely 'there' and, with equal intensity,...
Mar 11, 20222 min read


Thursday, "For God Alone my soul waits in silence..."
"The Magdalen Reading", c.1445, Rogier Van der Weyden Sister Beckett offers, There are layers of silence. Van der Weyden's Magdalen is...
Mar 10, 20221 min read


Wednesday "For God alone my soul waits in silence..."
The Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Sister Beckett writes...What Silence principally armors us against is Babel: the...
Mar 9, 20222 min read


Tuesday, "For God alone my soul waits in silence"
Holy Island from Lamlash, 1994, Craigie Aitchison Sister Wendy Beckett says, Profound silence is not something we fall into casually....
Mar 8, 20222 min read
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