Soul-filled Echoes
I’m Stephen Nash from TheRightDirt. If you are involved in faith with and for others — in classrooms, communities, or simply in your own life — you know how important it is to feel spiritually nourished.
Soul-filled Echoes is a contemplative podcast for those who long for depth. Each month, it offers a prayerful consideration on one of the Sunday gospels — a space to breathe and reflect.
With permission we use some of Fr Frank Moloney’s expertise to allow us to lean into how the spirit of the gospels can impact our daily lives.
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Episode 6 - The Canaanite Woman
This prayer is inspired by the Gospel for Matthew 15, Ord time Wk 20-
Previous Collect Prayers
A beginning meditation:
Take deep breath and hold it. Feel the air fill your lungs and permeate your body through to the tips of your toes. This breath is the life giving force God gave to the first and the last of us, from Adam to you. Allow God’s breath to fill you up, then let it go. With the outward breath, let go of any doubts and know His peace.
Breathe a second deep breath. This time, as it spreads throughout your being, allow it to shower your heart, mind and body with a knowledge of love. Recall a moment when you knew yourself to be loved or when you knew that you had awakened love in another. Let it warm you, then let it go. The love has been fed.
On the third deep breath, clear your mind of all that is holding you back from being fully alive to the words of the lectio. Be still for a moment, then let it go.