Saying Grace Growing up in a Catholic family, my parents did what they could to instill a sense of reverence and a prayer life in us. We had a bedtime prayer routine, and we said grace at any meal we sat down together for at home. When my brother and I were youngest, the grace before ...

From the practice room …  When learning a piece of music, there are a whole slew of ways we can go about practicing.  Some ways of learning or practicing help a piece of information click sooner than others.  While other ways accidentally teach us the wrong way before we get to the right one.  A method ...

I’m having a hard time cultivating compassion in these days of… all the things. Compassion is action oriented – it requires four steps from us: recognizing, understanding, empathizing and responding.Compassion is an action word.  Sometimes I don’t have any energy for action anywhere in me.  Carrie Newcomer reflects that: Perhaps the place to start is not ...

by nadine j. smet-weissspiritual director i pausenot to ponderbut to bewith what isall of itand i noticethat none of itis fixednot even melife in processin the livingof the momentsof my dayscoming into beingembodied gratitude