This week in our video series “The Discerning Voter: Gospel Values for this Election Season,” Fr. Ron Will, CPPS, and Precious Blood Companion Pam Demasi discuss the Matthew 20:1-16a, the Gospel for Sept. 20, in which a landowner hires laborers to work in his vineyard. Each week during this series, Fr. Ron and a member […]
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Cooking & Spirituality: Bruschetta
An appetizer, a snack or a meal By Lucia Ferrara Bruschetta is a super easy, super delicious dish with only a few ingredients. If you’ve never cooked with sun-dried tomatoes before, this recipe introduces them to you. I’m sure that you’ll be impressed with the burst of intense flavor sun-dried tomatoes add to your dish. […]
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The Discerning Voter: Compassion and voting preparation
Gracious and loving God, let your Spirit guide all candidates on the November ballot. Drawing on the resources of faith, we pray that each runs their campaign with civility. Inspire each to use this opportunity to shape a society more respectful of the life, dignity, and rights of the human person, especially the poor and […]
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The Discerning Voter: Gospel Values for this Election Season
Beginning Sept. 8 and every Tuesday until Election Day, Precious Blood Renewal Center will host a series of discussions based on the Sunday Gospels with the aim of helping us prepare to go to the voting booth this November. Fr. Ron Will, CPPS, will lead the discussions and be joined by members of the Precious […]
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Taize Sept. 3: Praying for All Who Labor
As we gather for this September Taize prayer service, we in the United States are about to celebrate Labor Day. It is time to reflect on the dignity of work. Our work not only provides money to put food on our table and a roof over our heads, we also have the privilege of joining […]
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Cooking & Spirituality: Pasta Alio e Olio
By Lucia Ferrara This recipe is low cost, easy and quick. If you’re looking for a budget friendly, fast meal for your family or just yourself, this is the meal to have: Pasta Alio e Olio or pasta with garlic and oil. Seriously, this is so super simple. You can get this dish done in […]
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Cooking and Spirituality: Giambotta, Italian vegetable stew
By Lucia Ferrara I excited about the recipe we are going to cook today. It’s and old-fashioned Italian recipe. It’s a pot of fresh vegetables taken right from your garden. I grew up on this, especially in the late summer and fall. The articles and videos in the Cooking and Spirituality Series can be found […]
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Taize Aug. 6: Praying for Hope Amidst the Pandemic
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to bring us to our knees economically, socially and in our community Gatherings, we fall on our knees tonight to pray to our God to be with us and see us through this awful time. Be comfortable with the silence after the chance and readings. Use it to reflect on […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #7: Love
By Fr. Ron Will, CPPS Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center for the final week of are reflections about what it means to live in the season of the Holy Spirit The mission of the Renewal Center is to be a safe and sacred place, offering healing and hope, renewal and reconciliation, for all […]
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Cooking and Spirituality: Risotto with Zucchini
By Lucia Ferrara In today’s video in the Cooking and Spirituality Series, I show you how to prepare Risotto with Zucchini. Risotto is made from arborio, an Italian short-grain rice, and can be cooked with many different ingredients. I mention in the video that when I was growing up, my mother oftentimes would make risotto […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #6: Hand in Glove
By Fr. Ron Will, CPPS Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center, as we continue our reflections about living in the season of the Holy Spirit. When we live under the influence of the Holy Spirit, we participate in a new creation. I am sitting on the deck here at our Renewal Center and you […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #5: Empower
By Fr. Ron Will CPPS All the reflections in this series can be found here: Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit. Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center, as we continue our reflections on the season of the Holy Spirit. When we live under the influence of the Holy Spirit, we participate in […]
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Introducing our New Video Series: Cooking and Spirituality
By Lucia Ferrara Our bodies are complex vessels we use to travel through this life, vessels for our physical and spiritual selves. Thus, we can speak of the need to nourish body and spirit. Of course, one has to eat to keep oneself simply alive, but countless generations and deep experience also tells us that […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #4: Intimacy
By Fr. Ron Will CPPS Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center for the fourth in our series “Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit. We’ve been reflecting on the idea that the Feast of Pentecost propels us into the season of the Holy Spirit. When we live under the influence of the Holy […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #3: There Are Different Gifts
By Fr. Ron Will, CPPS All the reflections in this series can be found here: Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit. Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center. We have been talking about how the Feast of Pentecost propels us into the season of the Holy Spirit. When we live under the influence […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #2: Unity
By Fr. Ron Will, CPPS All the reflections in this series can be found here: Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit. The Feast of Pentecost propels us into the season of the Holy Spirit. When we live under the influence of the Holy Spirit we participate in a new creation. In this series, […]
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What to do when you can’t shake the blues
By Fr. Garry Richmeier Over my 25 years as a counselor, people have often come to me saying they are feeling down or depressed. They wonder what is wrong and they want to fix it. I thought today I would share with you some of my experience about what to do when you’re feeling doing, […]
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Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit #1: Forgiveness
By Fr. Ron Will, CPPS Today we begin a seven-week series titled “Living in the Season of the Holy Spirit.” When we live under the influence of the Holy Spirit, we participate in a new creation. This is what we mean when we speak of the “Season of the Holy Spirit.” Over the next seven […]
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Video 3 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
By Kathy Keary This is our third video on focusing. Focusing is a life-giving spiritual meditation that honors the wisdom that lies within us. Focusing speaks to us in a way that can be felt in our bodies. Undoubtedly, we are living in troubled times, not only in our nation but in the world and […]
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Video 2 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
By Kathy Keary This is the second of three videos in this series. All videos are here. Today we continue our series of videos that look at Focusing, a technique developed by University of Chicago psychologist Eugen Gendlin. Gendlin found that his clients were more likely to improve if they had a relationship with feelings […]
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Taize June 4: Tonight we prayer for right relationships
By Dennis Coday The Taize Prayer Service post today to our website (see below) and Facebook page was recorded several days before the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent demonstrations and protests enveloped the nation. Already under stress from the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, this was much to endure. Despite predating the horrific […]
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New Video Series — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
By Kathy Keary Society teaches us to suppress our feelings, to distance ourselves from our emotional pain and to distract us from our emotions rather than to care for them in a healthy way. If you knew that there was a way to listen to the wisdom of your emotions as revealed in your body […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection: #7 A Strong Driving Wind
By Fr. Ron Will A Special Note and Request: The coronavirus continues to cause a lot of emotional and spiritual stress for many of you. We are still not able to invite people on to the Renewal Center campus at this time because of the virus, but we wonder: Is there anything that you would […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection: #6 The Ascension and the Commission
By Fr. Ron Will Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center for this 6th Week of Easter Meditations. As we gather for this video prayer across the miles today, there may be pockets of businesses and churches opening up near you, but we are still a long way from overcoming this coronavirus pandemic. And so […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection: #5 At the Mount of Olives
By Fr. Ron Will This meditation is based on the Matthew 28: 16-20. Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center for this 5th week of Easter meditations. Workplaces and churches may be opening up a little more in your part of the country than they were a week ago, but there are still lots of […]
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Taize Prayer for May 7 — Online Now!
Join the Precious Blood Renewal Center team for a prayer service in the Taize style. This video goes live on three locations May 7. Our Website: See below or find all the Taize videos here. On YouTube: at bit.ly/2Y0GfOn On Facebook beginning at 7 p.m.: facebook.com/preciousbloodrenewalcenter/ Taizé Prayer is sung, ecumenical community prayer. It originated with a […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus After the Resurrection: #4 Invited: Feed My Sheep
By Fr. Ron Will In today’s meditation, we return to the Sea of Galilee and find seven of the Disciples there fishing and trying to make sense of the death and resurrection of Jesus. The Teacher has already appeared to them three times. Last week, you recall, (See John 21: 2-14) that Jesus met Peter, […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection: #3 At the Sea Shore
By Fr. Ron Will, CPPS In this meditation, we will join the Apostles after they have gone back to fishing on the Sea of Galilee, after the death and resurrection of Jesus. You can find the scripture passage here: John 21: 2-14. When Jesus appears to the Apostles on the seashore, at first they do […]
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Break the Fast: Join us for a Virtual Iftar Dinner May 5
The video of this event is now available. See below: Virtual Ramadan with The Dialogue Institute of Kansas City, Precious Blood Renewal Center & Rockhurst University For the third consecutive year, Precious Blood Renewal Center and Dialogue Institute of Kansas join together to host an interfaith fast breaking celebration during the Muslim holy month of […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection: #2 Gathering in the Upper Room
Welcome back to Precious Blood Renewal Center for our second Eastern meditation. Today we will join the Apostles who were gathered in the Upper Room on the first day of the week after the death and burial of Jesus. Our meditation today will focus on a reading from the Gospel of John 20:19-23. In the […]
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The Seven Appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection: #1 Mary Magdalene at the Tomb
Happy Easter from Precious Blood Renewal Center in Liberty, Missouri! Christ is risen! Alleluia! Let us rejoice! We hope you had a chance to celebrate Easter Sunday by means of a livestream either from your own parish church or from one of the televised Easter Masses. Easter is the most important day of our liturgical […]
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Update: Watch Taize Prayer Service Now, Here
Join the Precious Blood Renewal Center team for a Good Friday prayer service in the Taize style. Taizé Prayer is sung, ecumenical community prayer. It originated with a monastic community in France and has spread to numerous spots around the world. The prayer service uses chant melodies and simple accompaniment along with moments of silence […]
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Lent Video Six – Meditation for Holy Thursday: ‘Remember Me As You Come Into Your Kingdom’
Special Note for Thursday’s Video Meditation: Please bring a crucifix that you can hold in your hands. As you settle into your place of prayer, Fr. Ron Will asks you to relax. Take a couple of deep breaths. Inhale the presence of God. Exhale any anxiety or stress you have in your body. Be present […]
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Lent Video Five – Meditation for Tuesday of Holy Week: “Only a Shadow of You Love”
Today, Tuesday of Holy Week, Fr. Ron Will helps us pray and mediate on the Stations of the Cross. The stations, also known as the Way of the Cross or Via Crucis in Latin, is an ancient tradition in Catholicism. The stations are a series of 14 vignettes portraying events in the Passion of Christ, […]
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Lent Video Four — Guided Meditation: ‘Traveling in the Dust of the Rabbi’
Today Fr. Ron Will is going to lead you in a guided meditation. He will start by reading a passage from the Gospel of Mark (Mark 1:29-34). Here’s the text to help you prepare. On leaving the synagogue he entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with […]
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Lent Video Three – Absorbed into the Teacher’s Way
When Jesus called his first disciples, he didn’t invite them just to attend his public lectures, but to join him, to live with him, to share meals with him, to pray with him, to teach with him, and to serve the poor with him. To share life with him. The image above depicts Jesus’ call […]
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Lent Video Two — Guided Meditation: ‘I Call You My Friend’
The Season of Lent always invites us to encounter God on a deeper, more personal level. Today, Fr. Ron Will is going to lead you in a guided meditation. Today we will be doing more than wading in a shallow pool. We will step into the deep waters of relationship. We will move beyond reciting […]
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Lent Video One — God’s Invitation: Turn to Me
The mission statement for Precious Blood Renewal Center declares that this is “a safe and sacred place for healing and hope, reconciliation and renewal.” The challenge we face today is how to invite folks into this sacred place when so many of us are under orders to stay home, to shelter in place and to […]