SL04-04-NewYearsEve-FromEndingtoBeginning
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Christmas may have come and gone almost a week ago, but liturgically at least, we are still in the Christmas Season until Epiphany on January 6th. As this is being recorded on New Year’s Eve, I thought I’d share a simple meditation of some beautiful Epiphany prayers to closer out our earthly remembrance of the year 2022 and to embark with surer footing on that path to Epiphany this year where we ask to be like the Magi, transformed, enkindled, renewed by God’s manifestation of the Light of the World within and through our own lives.
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SL04-03 From Love, Of Love, For Love
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For those of you who observe Lent and Easter, I hope that yours was a blessed Lenten season and Easter celebration. I hope that all listeners have had a blessed Winter and the budding leaves and flowers and green of Spring instills hope to the beauty of this year that lies ahead. During Lent, I came across this quote from David Benner which really spoke to my soul: “We are created from love, of love, for love. Our existence makes no sense apart from Divine Love.” — David G. Banner It is so easy in the hustle and bustle of life to forget this. It is...
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SL04-02 Gathering in the Sanctuary of the Soul Before Gathering Thanksgiving
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My thanksgiving prayer for you is that you too may transcend the moment at your gathered tables, transcend any tension, any worry, any resentment, any hurt and tap into your own heart energy and be aware of the memories being made, the love being shared, the love present, the affection felt. Love is eternal. It is in those moments of love, we leave our presence in this world. It is in those moments of love, we are still felt after we are gone and we likewise still feel those who have passed.
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SL04-01 Beyond Seeking and Receiving the Light of Hope to Broadcasting it To All
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In the July, 1937 issue of The Inner Life there is an article entitled, “A Challenge to Metaphysicians” the author asks siblings in spiritual ministry to consider developing the Christ Consciousness by starting their meetings with his invocation and prayers. What follows is my adaptation of his invocations as an imaginal prayer exercise, helping us to invite that Light of the Christ consciousness within so that we in turn may broadcast that Light, that Love, that truth out to all in these trying time
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SL03-12 Nourishing the Soul
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I recently came across the Gnostic influenced Manichaean writings that really seemed to speak to my soul. Manichaeism would be condemned by the Latin Church as a heresy, the Manichaean writings provide a richness that speaks more true to the human condition as a soul embodied, incarnated in this physical body we live and experience this earthly life than most of the Christian spiritual writings ever shed on the soul. I hope you too find it just as enriching as I did.
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SL03-11 Imaginally Exploring The Dimension of Love Through Scripture
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In this age we live in with so much dissension and rhetoric dividing humanity across the globe, I thought it important to remind ourselves of the mandatum Christ left his followers, “To love one another as I have loved you.” The love that Christ was speaking about and instructed and lived out by example is not solely a feeling, or an emotion, rather, it is a dimension with which to live your life. The dimension of love connects you to the divine in a way that no other dimension can.
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SL03-10 Remembering 2020 and Welcoming 2021 With The Great Invocation
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A year ago, we closed out 2019 and welcomed 2020 by offering our minds, hearts and wills to allow the Light, Love and Purpose of the Mind of God to enter us through praying the Great Invocation revealed to Alice Bailey.
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SL03-09 Anima Mundi All Souls' Day Novena - Day 9 - For Freedom and Liberty
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Welcome to Spei Lumina and day 9 the conclusion of our Novena honoring the Anima Mundi for All Souls day. Today is all souls day — a day set aside by the church to remember all the faithful departed throughout the last year. In the United States, 235,460 people have died from COVID-19. Let us remember the souls of all lost to this pandemic and those left to grieve their loss as we conclude our novena prayer to the Anima Mundi Day Number 9. Our intention today is for Freedom and Liberty.
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SL03-08 Anima Mundi All Souls' Day Novena - Day 8 - For Justice
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Today, Sunday November1st we continue our Novena Prayer to the Anima Mundi Day Number 8. Our intention today is for Integrity.
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SL03-07 Anima Mundi All Souls' Day Novena - Day 7 - For Integrity
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Welcome to Spei Lumina and day 7 of our Novena honoring the Anima Mundi for All Souls day. Today, Saturday October 31st we continue our Novena Prayer to the Anima Mundi Day Number 7. Our intention today is for Integrity.
info_outlineRecently, a friend of mine posted on FaceBook the question “How are hope and wish different or alike?” The question immediately piqued my curiosity and I promptly replied with the following:
“Hope is that light of faith, light of Grace, that Light that keeps me going even in the darkest most troubling times. Wish is just that, a desire for an outcome that really may or may not be in my best interest. I can live without wishing. Living without hope would be miserable as life would seem “hope”-less.”
Helping each of us nurture that light of faith, that light of Grace, that Light inwardly is the mission of this podcast in these times that can often seem dark and troubling.
These days we find ourselves in new territory with the social distancing and closedowns of so much in our society and the run on toilet paper, sanitizer, and so many household items at our grocery stores as schools were closed, businesses sent employees to work from home and so many public gathering events cancelled with the intention of helping halt the spread of Covid 19, the Corona Virus.
I thought imaginally praying Psalm 139 would be a great way to anchor ourselves in hope and in faith during these uncertain times most of us have never navigated before as we are called to socially distance ourselves and stay at home and as some of us in larger cities where the outbreak is greater are asked to shelter in place.
I can think of no better way to “shelter in place” than to rest in that abiding presence of the divine as the psalmist teaches us in Psalm 139.