Every Monday Morning  one of our teachers leads a meditation and open  sharing on Zoom between 9.30 am and 10.30 Dublin Time. If you would like to join the group live, please email for log in details frtimardouin@gmail.com. The recording of the meditation (first half hour) will appear here soon after.

Drawing from this morning’s readings – Deuteronomy 16. 1-20 and 1 Peter 1. 1-12 - and from a feast of poetry including poems by Auden, Dylan Thomas, Wordsworth and Jehanne Mehta, Viv leads a richly-facetted meditation exploring the theme ‘Time and the Timeless’.

Tim follows a profound reflection on Hohkmah/ Wisdom/Holy Spirit, who was, is , will be always at the beginning, always in peace, with a potent practice of synchronising breath and heartbeat with the Aramaic word shlama, which carries all the overtones and undertones of his ruminations. He finishes with a brief lectio divina from Mark's gospel, Chapter 6, when, as the wind got up, the disciples out on the sea became fearful and Jesus calmly walked across the waves, stepped into the boat and wrapped them in 'the peace which passeth all understanding'

Beginning with an Aramaic breath practice on the word for God, 'Allaha', Jo takes us ever deeper into contemplative prayer, into conversation and communion with the I Am Presence, where we discover not only our own I Am presence but the I Am presence that is in all people and all creation. Jo draws from the Morning Prayer Scriptures of the day, Deuteronomy 5.1-22 and Ephesians 1.1-14.

Drawing from today’s readings - Deuteronomy1, 3-18 and John20, 1- 10, and focussing particularly on the line from Deuteronomy ‘do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God'– Viv leads a masterly and powerful meditation based on the “4 C’s” of no comparing, competing, criticising or complaining, which challenges us to live without judging others or ourselves,  and thus to find the peace which Jesus lived and taught.

As Holy week proceeds, Tim leads us in a profound and beautiful meditation on Jesus’ last supper with his disciples, which became the pattern for the central sacrament of the Church- the Eucharist.
Readings behind the meditation: lamentations 1.1-12 a and Luke 22.23, augmented with extracts from The Gospel of John and The Gospel of the Beloved Companion.

 

Through Lectio Divina, breath and visualization, Jo leads us to experience deeply the cosmic, eternal and always present Christ without us and so ever more profoundly within. We hear the call of Love, through the portal of Holy Scripture and the personality of Jeshua the Christ, to emerge from the tomb of whatever binds us and be free.

Being like a tree planted near a stream’: Viv leads a light-filled and spacious meditation referencing Jeremiah 17. 5-18 and John 9. 18-end, Thomas Keating and the Tao Te Ching. Opening our consciousness to our part in the universe, this meditation reminds us we can let go and trust God.

In a magical meditation in voice and song, and drawing from Jeremiah 11.1-17, John 7.37-52 and the poetry of W B Yeats, Tim steals us away to a shy place of living waters where the treasures of our native Celtic heritage and the message of Christ Jesus merge and flow.

Using intriguing and graphic images, Jo leads a profound meditation on the nature and practice of faith. She reveals that faith is not something we do, like believing, but a gift  we receive, when hopeless and helpless, we release ourselves into the chasm of unknowing.

Drawing from the morning's readings, Viv leads us in a deep, timeless meditation of breath and light, teaching us to connect with inspiration through God's prompting, reflecting on our lives and the decisions we make. The readings for the morning are Jeremiah Chapter 1 and john 3.1-21.

Viv uses also poetry by Rumi and other spiritual poets translated by her friend Melita Kolin.

https://harpercollins.co.uk/blogs/authors/azima-melita-kolin

Arising from Ecclesiastes7, 1-14 and John 19, 1-16, Tim leads us from deep contemplation of the feminine ground of wisdom(Hokhmah), through the steadfast silence of Jesus in the face of baseless accusation and betrayal, vividly to walk a labyrinth.

At it’s centre, with the silver trout of Yeats’ immortal poem and wild Celtic imagery, we enter fleetingly the deep well of unknowing…Drawing from the morning's readings (Ecclesiastes 7.1-14 and John 19.1-16) and from WB Yeats' poem 'The Song of Wandering Aengus', Tim leads us through a labyrinth meditation to the wisdom within.

Jo guides a meditation on the divine feminine as Brigid as we cross the threshold from Winter to Spring or Imbolc. Making reference to 1 Corinthians 12: 12-end, and to Brigid who is said to have fostered the boy, Jesus, the meditation offers one way to help us develop the Christ within.

Remembering St Paul’s conversion, Viv guides us profoundly, back into our own first realisation of the truth that all is One, and asks how we stay faithful to it and how we permit it’s stream of love to pass to others in a way that speaks to them.

This meditation on contemplative prayer by Fr Tim is drawn from the morning's readings (Amos 6 and 1 Corinthians 6.1-11) and extracts from the Gospels of Matthew and Thomas. It includes some instruction on and a twenty minute practice of Centring Prayer.

Jo guides a profound meditation on the symbol of Jesus’ baptism and of the cross, representing our journey through the deep and muddy waters of separation within us to find the deep Silence, find union in the Christ centre of the heart and free the Dove, the Christ Spirit.

Balance, feminine masculine, divine human, spirit matter, a beautiful meditation on the alchemical marriage through the Prophet Isaiah and the Gospel of John by Viv.

Winter Solstice and three days befor Christmas, Fr Tim leads us in a meditation of Light. The readings for Morning Prayer that preceded the meditation, and from which it springs, were Isaiah 52.13 - end of 53 and 2 Peter 1.1-15

Face to Face. Drawing from the morning's Scripture readings and psalm, Jo Jamila leads us gently through imagination and visioning to the reality of a "face to face" meeting with the Christ who is always present and who never forgets us, though we ourselves are so often forgetful.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight" (Proverbs 3.5). Hadia takes us by the Grace of God and the inspiration of Mary into a deep and spontaneous meditation. We are encouraged and taught to descend from the illusive identities and attachments of perceived knowing to the more open receptiveness of the heart.

Tim takes us on a remarkable journey from the passage in John’s Gospel, where some Greeks (Gentiles) express a desire to see Jesus, to the story of His anointing before the cruciixion by Mary Magdalene with the rich oil of spikenard, symbolic of the feminine quality of Wisdom. This sacred act, redolent of a tradition stretching back centuries, makes him the Way to our meeting the Christ in us.

"A voice cries out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." Reflecting on the readings from the day's Morning Prayer (Isaiah 40.1-11 and Revelation 14.1-13) Jo leads us, through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, into a deep and profound meditation as we prepare for the coming seasonal contemplative pilgrimage of Advent.

Noting the highly symbolic and apocalyptic nature of this morning’s texts (Daniel 8 and Revelation 10) as “inscrutable”, Viv goes on nevertheless, to use these texts as a springboard into a clear, courageous and spacious meditation into a taste of the sweet mystery of God always present within, despite the sometimes bitter challenges of outer daily life.

"Who Are You? Really?" In a series of vivid images, Tim draws us into the wilderness. He invites us to let go of the hard definitions we have of our separate self, and ask ourselves who are we really.

As the seasons turn from Autumn to Winter, Jo Jamila quotes Nan C Merrill, "Wisdom abides in the deep recesses of the heart. Who is at home to receive her?" Jo leads us in a meditation practice to help us be home and so open to Wisdom's sacred presence.

Viv leads us in a beautiful and far reaching meditation journey after some challenging teaching about how and why the feminine and masculine balance was lost for so long to the Christian and Hebrew relationship with God. She encourages us to reconnect with the feminine to help redress the balance in us and through us.

This morning Tim leads us in a profound and powerful meditation emerging from deep teachings about the tree of life, attributed to Mary Magdalene. He explains more about their source in his opening remarks.

Prompted by stories in the day’s Morning Prayer bible readings about witnessing to the light and using the breath and the beautiful Aramaic word Noohra, Jo leads us in an inspiring meditation designed to allow the Christ Light to permeate all the levels of our being, so that we become that which we witness.

A  meditation led by Viv  in how to open to inner guidance in decision making so that our will may be more closely aligned with God’s will.

Tim takes us on a  journey of the heart starting with the line in Psalm 119 “Create in me a clean heart, that your light may be seen.

Jo takes us through an elemental experience of our 'true selves' and Christ, with a Celtic Christian empathy for Nature and Seasons.

Meditation by Viv on Wisdom with breath and imagination practices helping us to drop from attachment to freedom in the Christ.

Coming to wareness of the small self and living from the true self. Meditation and practice to move from fear to love.

Metanoia: moving from the head to the heart, from concept to contemplation and  transformation through 'imaginal cells' to wholeness.