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Holy Waiting: Advent
Renee offers two meditations on waiting this advent season.
Confessions of a Beginning Meditator
I don’t know how to sit.
I'm at a yoga retreat, and we finish every class with twenty minutes of meditation. Each sitting position I try results in searing back pain at about nine minutes. That’s eleven minutes of meditation on pain.
Jesuit Yoga III
When the object of our meditation alone illumines us...
from Déchanet's letters to Thomas Merton on Contemplation
Passage Meditation Technique
Passage meditation has helped deepen my intimacy with Christ and his Word, and continues to assist me in my slow, grace-led growth in holiness.
In Which We Discuss the Relationship between Asana and Meditation
Yoga in the service of meditative prayer expresses a balance between the horizontal and vertical dimensions.