Author Archives: Marcia Hotchkiss

This fourth week of the Lenten class of Prayer & Reconciliation makes a direct connection between our prayer life and forgiveness, The lesson describes a Christian’s journey with prayer where we keep learning while here on earth. Please submit comments or questions. We will respond individually or, if there is enough interest, we can setContinue reading “Week Four: Centering Prayer”

Since we have been home and inside this week, we have been looking for education, creativity, amusement and anything other than news to watch. At the beginning of the week, we stumbled upon a gem on Netflix, “The Pharmacist.” This four-part documentary shadows a pharmacist who is blind-sided by the overdose death of his youngContinue reading “"The Pharmacist" Makes the Medicine Go Down”

This lesson looks at the difficulty we have in forgiving ourselves and why we need forgiveness. Finally, we provide an exercise on forgiving yourself that people can do at home!

We look at the process of forgiveness and particularly at those people who are hard to forgive. We finished by looking at the Prayer of Examen.

This lesson looks at the myths around forgiveness and why forgiveness is so important. We also look at Breath Prayer and how to practice it.

It’s a brave new world. Actually it’s been a brave new world for sometime, but we have been too busy or too preoccupied to take advantage of it. This pandemic – this COVID-19 crisis – has caused us to mostly shelter in place and look for alternatives to in-person communication. With help from the communicationsContinue reading “Brave New World”