A Tradition of Meditation & Reflection
From "Join a February Conversation with Murray"
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As a pre-amble to my offering; it is important to acknowledge that we are called to a life of faith fully immersed in the life around us and allow our faith to transform and engage the gift of life around us in the immediacy of the world and the remoteness of the cosmos. We allow for the Spirit of our serendipitous God to enter our lives through the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Our climate and weather patterns can be an enriching part of our spirituality and life of faith. While the warmer months of our climate offer the beauty and welcoming air to roam about and take in the sights and the sounds of the life around us, thus leading to an active faith in wonder and awe, our colder months, slowing down the pace of life and creating physical restrictions with cold, ice and snow, also have much to offer. Rather than action our colder months can offer us a time of reflection and meditation.
Our own history of monastic tradition and religious apostolate, maintained and lived out in our religious orders and congregations, attest to both an active apostolate of faith and a contemplative life of reflection. Our colder months, then, tend to give us an opportunity to delve deep into the mysteries of our faith through meditation, quiet, solitude and stillness. We are given an opportunity to nourish our lives with contemplation during these colder months.
