Meditations

The Healing Power of Contemplative Prayer

June 15, 2020

by Kathy Keary In our world today, so much is happening. It can gnaw at our sense of well-being. A c...

Video 2 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing

June 10, 2020

By Kathy Keary
If you experience stresses in your life or are weighed down by emotional baggage, you may find the focusing method to be freeing. In this video, we demonstrate how to do focusing.

Spiritual Direction by Zoom or Phone

June 8, 2020

Feeling a bit disconnected from your spiritual life? Here are two ways to reconnect. During these w...

The Stay-at-Home Directed Retreat — June 26-28

Feeling a bit disconnected from your spiritual life? Here are two ways to reconnect. During these w...

Focusing: Reverencing the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 3

By Kathy Keary
We've looked at the background and mechanics of Focusing. Now, I will discuss the topic on a more personal level covering a few points about my own experience of focusing in hopes that it will encourage you to give this life-giving practice a try.

Taize June 4: Tonight we prayer for right relationships

June 4, 2020

Many among us feel torn, disrupted and disturbed. We need a safe space to find God’s peaceful rule amidst this brokenness. We need a safe place, not to hide, but to recharge and renew ourselves to work for justice.

Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 2

June 1, 2020

By Kathy Keary
Part 2 of 3 Parts. The first article in this series introduced you to “focusing,” a tool spiritual directors use to help directees identify and care for emotions by paying attention to one’s body. This week we take a more detailed look at the specific steps involved in focusing.

Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 1

May 27, 2020

By Kathy Keary
Society teaches us to suppress our feelings and to distract ourselves from our emotions rather than to care for them. If you found a way to listen to the wisdom of your emotions as revealed in your body and care for them in a life-giving way, would you try it?