Sunday-Ps.91 is a powerful prayer of protection. Alos, the devil quotes it to Jesus sin the temptation scene. Look at its closing verses and seek to make them your own.
Monday-"Pilgrimage is fundamentally an alert attentiveness to God: a quiet listening, a prayerful waiting, a contemplative centering, a grateful bowing. Too much attention on physical holy places can distract us from the spiritual essence of pilgrimage. It risks turning would-be pilgrims into tourists. If God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, then we are always at the Holy Place we seek. The key is to realize it."Abbey of the Arts
Tuesday-Delight-To love, in the sense of agape, is to participate in God’s generosity of love, to treat another person not with any preference for our own good but as an equal. Practice taking delight in the happiness of others, rather than feeling threatened or diminished, as if someone else’s happiness could take something away from us.-Br. Curtis Almquist
Wednesday-Seneca-"If ever you have come upon a grove that is full of ancient trees which have grown to an unusual height, shutting out a view of the sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot, and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity. Or if a cave, made by the deep crumbling of the rocks, holds up a mountain on its arch, a place not built with hands but hollowed out into such spaciousness by natural causes, your soul will be deeply moved by a certain intimation of the existence of God."
Thursday-The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers."— St. Maximilian Kolbe
Friday-"At the heart of autumn's gifts are the twin energies of relinquishing and harvesting. It is a season of paradox that invites us to consider what we are called to release and surrender, and at the same time it invites us to gather in the harvest, to name and celebrate the fruits of the seeds we planted months ago. In holding these two in tension we are reminded that in our letting go we also find abundance." --- Christine Valters Paintner, PhD
Saturday- "In Celtic tradition a 'thin time' means that heaven and earth feel closer and we might experience moments of connection to those who have gone before us in ways that we don’t usually."--- Christine Valters Paintner, PhD-do you line this up with the communion of saints?
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