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End of Life Seminar

8 March 2013 in /by

The Dublin & Glendalough Diocesan Committee has organised a seminar on End of Life for those serving in parochial ministry. From the brochure:  During his Presidential address at the Diocesan Synod in October Archbishop Michael outlined some areas that he would like to highlight in the years ahead. One of these was our response to […]

Lent and Well-being: Re-filling the feeder

7 March 2013 in /by

The Underworld By Sharon Bryan When I lived in the foothills birds flocked to the feeder: house finches, goldfinches, skyblue lazuli buntings, impeccably dressed chickadees, sparrows in work clothes, even hummingbirds fastforwarding through the trees. Some of them disappeared after a week, headed north, I thought, with the sun. But the first cool day they […]

Lent and Well-being: White space

27 February 2013 in /by

No one can say I don’t pay attention to a good sermon. One of my favourites was delivered several years ago by the Reverend Canon Maureen Ryan–priest, writer, and poet. Her sermon, preached at Trinity College Chapel and now published in the chaplaincy journal Spiorad (Spring 2012 issue), was entitled ‘Lent as Poetry’. Since just […]

Lent and Well-being: One-minute meditation

20 February 2013 in /by

Yesterday’s mention of the one-minute vacation led me to this video of the one-minute meditation.  Focusing on our breath not only slows us down, relaxes tensions, and improves circulation, but it also reminds us of God’s immanent presence. It reminds us that we are God-breathed, that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit (or Wind […]

Lent and Well-being: Slowing down

19 February 2013 in /by

Slow me down, Lord. Slow me down! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind . . . Give me, amid the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.  Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in […]

Lent and Well-being: In the Garden

15 February 2013 in /by

It’s Friday, and the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the clouds are puffy. Today is no day to be reading (or writing) long essays or reflections if you can help it. Instead, here are some links to voices and events that have caught my attention, especially as relates to our earthiness and […]

Lent and Well-being: Ash Wednesday

13 February 2013 in /by

What if we extend this concept of death, and its correlative, life, to our Lenten discipline? What if we ask:

What’s life-reducing, life-distracting, life-sapping in our daily routines? And give that up.

And what’s life-nourishing, life-creating, life-sustaining that’s missing from our daily routines?

And take that up.

Lent and Well-being: Where the good way lies

12 February 2013 in /by

This year in CMHI, we look at the theme of well-being in body, mind and spirit.   Beginning tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, we take advantage of the Lenten season to ‘stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for [our] souls.’ (Jeremiah 6.16)   Lent may have […]