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Contemplative at Home
by Lissy Clarke
Contemplative at Home offers guided prayer, Christian meditation and contemplation. This space will help you slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina, with episodes from the Gospels and the Psalms.
Episodes
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Teresa of Avila: The Second Dwelling: Lectio Divina
A 24-minute audio guided meditation with an excerpt from The Second Dwelling by Teresa of Avila, in the contemplative Christian tradition. Teresa of Avila's feast day is on the 15th of October, so I wanted to revisit her words in meditation this week. I have selected a few phrases from the…
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Come and Follow: Imaginative Contemplation: Mark 1:16-22
A 26-minute audio guided meditation in Mark's Gospel, in the contemplative Christian tradition. Mark 1:16-22 (this is a mix of NRSV, TLB, the Message and one or two of my own phrases...which I believe are true to the text!) "As Jesus was walking along the shores of the Sea of Galilee, he saw…
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Jesus came to Galilee: Imaginative Contemplation: Mark 1:14-15
A 22-minute audio guided meditation in Mark's Gospel, in the contemplative Christian tradition. Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.'…
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The Spirit : Lectio Divina : Mark 1:9-13
A 23-minute audio guided meditation in Mark's Gospel, in the contemplative Christian tradition. Baptism, Spirit, Dove, "Beloved", Wilderness, Angels. Mark is sparse with his story telling - the pointed highlights only, sharp and quick fire. But it's all here: Spiritual awakening, the voice and...
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Prepare the Way : Lectio Divina : Mark 1:1-4
A 22-minute audio guided meditation in Mark's Gospel, in the contemplative Christian tradition. The beginning of the good news.... As it was written in the prophet Isaiah, "See! I am sending my messenger ahead of you... the voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make...
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A Baptism for Metanoia : Lectio Divina : Mark 1:1-8
An 18-minute audio guided meditation in Mark's Gospel, drawing on the contemplative Christian tradition. John the Baptiser appears in the wilderness with clarity of mind and heart and speech. He offers those who come the "baptism of metanoia". Metanoia comes from two greek words: 'meta' which…
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Meditation: The Gifts of Spring
A 22-minute audio guided meditation, referencing Isaiah 43. Spring is a season of new beginnings, new life, renewal and hope. As the northern spring begins to find its stride, birdsong and flowering bulbs hint at a waking world. In this meditation you are invited to imagine yourself in this…
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Pause for Christmas Eve - A Guided Meditation
This 16-minute guided meditation invites you to review your Advent meditations, to hold silence on the threshold between Advent and Christmas, and to imagine God's new life being born again within you. Dear Ones--- This guided meditation is for anyone who has been praying throughout Advent and...
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God's Deepening Life in Me: Lectio Divina: Teachings of St Ignatius
A 22-minute audio guided meditation with the teaching of St Ignatius. "I want and I choose what better leads to God's deepening life in me." Last week we had a meditation on the 'Principle and Foundation' of St Ignatius of Loyola, and today I offer you a meditation with a more contemporary...
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The Principle and Foundation : Lectio Divina : Teachings of St Ignatius
A 19-minute audio guided meditation on the Ignatian 'Principle and Foundation,' using Lectio Divina. In his "Spiritual Exercises," Ignatius invites us to consider who God is, who we are, and how we therefore invited to relate to God and all of the created order. In the Principle and Foundation,...
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I Must Turn Aside: Lectio Divina: Exodus 3 - The Burning Bush
A 23-minute audio guided meditation with Exodus 3:1-15, using Lectio Divina. Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God's love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. Sign…
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The Surpassing Value of Knowing Christ: Lectio Divina: Philippians 3:4-16
An 18-minute audio guided meditation with the letter to the Philippians, Philippians 2:4-16, using Lectio Divina. When we read Paul we get a sense of his intensity, his high energy, his focussed mind. But he can also be read contemplatively. Here you are invited to connect with Paul's faith, the...
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Twenty Minute Body Scan - Be Still and Know That I Am God
A 20-minute audio guided body scan, resting in God's love, Psalm 46:10 A deeply restorative meditation in the body, for the mind and spirit. You will emerge feeling calmer, more centred and more deeply connected with the Spirit of God. This kind of meditation is known as yoga nidra, and I love to...
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When God is Absent: A Meditation for Holy Saturday
A 21-minute audio guided meditation, with text from John 19:38-42 Though it is wildly tempting to rush to Easter morning, I invite you to tarry a while with me, to stay here in the holy, devastating moments as the body of Jesus is removed from the cross. As Michael Rosen so wisely said: we can't…
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Arrest: Lectio Divina: John 18:1-14
A 21-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 18:1-14, using Lectio Divina. An audio guided lectio divina meditation with John's account of the arrest of Jesus. Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out…
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Jesus and Judas: Imaginative Contemplation: John 13:21-30
A 23-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 13:21-30, using Imaginative Contemplation. Everyone has gathered in Jerusalem for the passover, and Jesus knows that his hour has come. As he sits around the table with his disciples, he becomes visibly distressed before he says aloud…
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Are You Going to Wash My Feet?: Imaginative Contemplation: John 13:1-17
A 22-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 13:1-17, using Imaginative Contemplation. In this meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a 'long, loving look' at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimmering, life-giving containers which hold...
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The Glory that Comes from God: Lectio Divina: John 12:27-43
A 22-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 12:27-28, 34-36, and 42-43, using Lectio Divina. Glory. Light. An access to eternity that doesn't look like the power and longevity we might have imagined. I think that Jesus is inviting us to listen very deeply here. I remember my high...
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We Want to See Jesus: Lectio Divina: John 12:20-26
A 19-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 8:12-20, using Lectio Divina. In this meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a 'long, loving look' at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimmering, life-giving containers which hold endless…
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Mary Anoints Jesus' Feet: Imaginative Contemplation: John 12:1-11
A 24-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 12:1-11, using imaginative contemplation. In this meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a 'long, loving look' at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimmering, life-giving containers which hold...
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Jars of Clay: Lectio Divina
A 16-minute guided audio meditation on 2 Corinthians 4:5-11, using Lectio Divina. This meditation emerged as a reflection on the human capacity for bringing both beauty and pain into the world. While this is true collectively, it is also true on an individual level. We are all capable of bringing...
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Love was His Meaning: Lectio Divina with Julian of Norwich
A 20-minute meditation with the writings of Julian of Norwich, using Lectio Divina. You are probably familiar with Mother Julian's saying "All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well." On her deathbed, Julian was given a vivid and powerful vision of Christ on…
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Filled with the Unknowable: Lectio Divina: Job 11 and Ephesians 3
A 19-minute guided audio meditation with Job 11:8-9 and Ephesians 3:17-19, using Lectio Divina. I came to this text hoping to bring you a meditation on the depths of the love of God (Eph 3:18-19), but as I sat with a handful of translations, Greek words and Hebrew references, I was taken more...
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Embodied Examen
A 19-minute guided meditation using gentle physical movement (yoga), breath and the Ignatian Examen. Ignatius of Loyola taught his followers that the one prayer they could never eliminate from their daily practice, is the prayer of review, or the Examen. As Teresa of Avila (who for some time had…
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15-Minute Meditation on Song of Songs
A 15-minute audio guided meditation with Song of Songs 2:8. Song of Songs 2:8 The voice my beloved! Look, he comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. In this guided meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to imagine that you are in the mountains, and that the beloved comes...
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Intimate Encounter: Finding Your Name in God's Love
A 16-minute guided meditation, linked to Isaiah 42:1-3 This is what the Lord says.... "I have called you by name..." This meditation is designed to help you pause, connect deeply with the Beloved, to imagine yourself beholding the LORD beholding you, and to hear the LORD calling you by name. It...
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A Moment Aside with the Beloved: 12-minute Guided Meditation
This guided meditation offers you a quiet pause to reconnect with your breath, the Presence of Love, and the question "What is Your will for me for the next few hours?" This might be a little prayer you make at midday, or a few times throughout the day, though there is no incorrect time to pause...
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Let the Earth Be Glad: Psalm 96: Lectio Divina
A 22-minute guided meditation with Psalm 96, using Lectio Divina. Psalm 96 is a Psalm of rejoicing, celebrating in the greatness of the Lord. It is a Psalm for Christmas. This guided audio meditation invites you to be aware of your body and your breath as you meditate, allowing the words of the...
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Finding Your O Antiphon: An Advent Meditation
A 15-minute guided meditation for Advent. The Antiphons are short chants which appear throughout Christian liturgy, and feature in Ambrosian chant and Gregorian chant. The O Antiphons appear one each day in the final seven days before Christmas. Each short verse calls on the Lord by a specific…
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Preparing Space: A Guided Meditation for Advent
A 19-minute audio meditation for Advent. The opening image of Caryll Houselander's book The Reed of God, describes Mary's "virginal quality" as emptiness. Not a formless or useless emptiness, but a shaped emptiness, prepared to hold something specific. She relates this emptiness to the hollow of...
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Thy Kingdom Come: Advent: A Guided Meditation
A 15-minute audio guided meditation for Advent. During Advent, we remember that Christ has come, Christ is coming (now, among us) and Christ will come again. For those who seek to follow Christ, this meditation offers space to reflect on the Kingdom of God: what it is, what it does and how you…
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Preparing for Advent: A Guided Meditation
A 13-minute guided meditation to help you settle on how you will observe Advent this year. If you're not quite sure what your advent observance will look like this year, or how you will make time to fit prayerful reflection into the busy month of December, or how to balance the sacred time of...
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Steadfast Love : Lamentations 3 : Guided Meditation
A 11-minute audio guided meditation with mindful breath awareness. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, God's mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning Great is Thy Faithfulness. All blessings as you pause with these profound verses. May they be new to you as you pray.…
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The Interior Castle: The First Dwelling: Lectio Divina
A 19-minute audio guided meditation with text from Mirabai Starr's translation of The Interior Castle. In this meditation I invite you to pray with the wisdom of St Teresa of Avila. Listening prayerfully to the text, you are invited to ask: How is the Lord speaking to me in these words? Teresa…
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What are we to do?: John 11:45-54: Lectio Divina
A 22-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 11:45-54, using Lectio Divina. In this meditation on John's Gospel, we consider the variety of responses people made to the radical and astonishing life that Jesus brought. I invite you to consider the ways you might resonate with those…
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We Are One: John 17: Lectio Divina
A 17-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 17:1-4, 10-11, 13, 23, 26, using Lectio Divina. In Jesus' final prayer/teaching before he arrested, in John's Gospel, there is both a summary and climax of the primary messages of John. These messages include: the intimacy or one-ness…
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Reflecting on Your Relationship With Christ: John 16:16-27: Guided Meditation
An 18-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 16:16-27, with questions for reflection. This meditation takes on a slightly different pattern as we allow the text to open up questions for our spiritual journey. Firstly we see how Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure, for a...
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The Spirit of Truth: John 16:7-13: Lectio Divina
A 21-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 16:7-13, using Lectio Divina. John 16:7-13 "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes…
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Love One Another: John 15:12-17: Lectio Divina
A 17-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 15:12-17, using Lectio Divina. In this meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a 'long, loving look' at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimmering, life-giving containers which hold endless…
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Imagining The Vine and The Branches: John 15:1-11: Imaginative Contemplation
A 21-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 15:1-11, using Imaginative Contemplation. We continue our series in John 15 with an imaginative contemplation on the vine and branches, exploring the notion of abiding in God. Imaginative Contemplation invites us to see the scripture in…
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Abide: John 15:5-11: Lectio Divina
A 20-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 8:12-20, using Lectio Divina. "Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit." "Abide in me." "Abide in my love." "I have said these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete." This meditation is in the…
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The Vine and The Branches: John 15:1-5: Lectio Divina
A 17-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 15:1-5, using Lectio Divina. There are so many layers for reflection in this well-known passage and I invite you to come to it fresh today, open to what nuggets of wisdom might be waiting for you in these images today. Abide in me, as I...
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Meditation: The Gifts of Summer
A 23-minute audio guided meditation on the Gifts of Summer. The summer is a time of ripening and fullness, a time to allow the long, warm days to ripen the fruit of the labour of spring. To contemplate, according to Walter Burghardt SJ, is to "take a long, loving look at the real." Summer, with…
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Imaginative Contemplation: John 11: Lazarus
A 25-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 11:32-44, Lazarus is raised from the dead, using Imaginative Contemplation. There are so many feelings in this story: Mary and Martha's great grief mixed with feelings of profound disappointment with Jesus. Their angry confusion that he...
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I am in the Father: John 10:31-42: Lectio Divina
A 21-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 10:31-42, using Lectio Divina. The text in this meditation comes from the NRSV and NIV, and includes most but not all of the verses in John 10:31-42. See below for verses in today's meditation. 22 Then came the Festival of Dedication at...
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I am the Good Shepherd: John 10:11-15: Lectio Divina
A 20-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 10:11-15, using Lectio Divina. In this meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a 'long, loving look' at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimmering, life-giving containers which hold endless…
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Imaginative Contemplation: I am the Gate: John 10:1-10
A 23-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 10:1-10, using Imaginative Contemplation. In this meditation on John's Gospel, I invite you to imagine that you're on a Galilean hillside, listening to Jesus speak. Just for these few minutes, I invite you to leave your dogma, your creed,...
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Meditation - Soaking in the Love of God - Updated
A 10-minute meditation on the love of God with breath awareness and verses from the Psalms and prophets. This is an updated version of a meditation released in 2022, with more space to let the verses settle in to your psyche. Listeners to the previous meditation responded in the following ways:...
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Imaginative Contemplation - Mary Meets Jesus at the Tomb - John 20
A guided meditation with John 20:11-18, using imaginative contemplation. 23 minutes. This is the re-release of a meditation first published in 2022. This passage has meant so much to me and helped me, in a crisis of faith, to see that what feels like The End may in fact be a beginning, an...
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Imaginative Contemplation - Early on the First Day of the Week - Easter Meditation
A 16-minute audio guided meditation in John's Gospel, John 20:1-10, using Imaginative Contemplation. Christ is risen. Alleluia! In this meditation we are reminded that the resurrection of Jesus broke over his friends and disciples slowly, amidst confusion and stress. As I reviewed this meditation...
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Contemplative at Home offers guided prayer, Christian meditation and contemplation. This space will help you slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina, with episodes from the Gospels and the Psalms.
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Lissy Clarke
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