End of Summer & Back to School – Summer is winding down quickly. People are returning from vacations and kids are heading back to school this week. Please pray for our WMF kids, Cora & Amani Forcatto and Jordan Dean, as they begin a new year of preschool and primary school. We had some good [...]
The Spirituality of Slippin’-n-Sliddin’ at our recent community retreat in January.
This Advent Christine Sine is hosting a blog series, “What are we waiting for this Advent?” on her blog GodSpace. Here is my reflection on Advent in the Southern Hemisphere. For the entire series click here.
Advent in the Southern Hemisphere:
Actively Waiting in Newness of Life
This Advent and Christmas season will be my first in the [...]
This Sunday night, November 29, our WMF community will gather with our Argentine partners to light the first candle of Advent, the candle of hope. Our liturgy will include worship, reflection, Lectio Divina and prayer. Postured with hope, peace, joy and love, our time will also include lighting candles around the Advent wreath in a [...]
Recently, our Buenos Aires community has been seeking to more deeply understand what we mean by spirituality and its expression in our daily lives. (See Walter Forcatto’s blog post from July 17.) Often our understanding of spiritual practices is limited to those disciplines of silence, solitude, prayer, and meditation. But spirituality and spiritual practices are [...]
“Hace frio” is a daily greeting these days….”it’s cold!” These past couple of weeks have been the coldest this winter so far. The days of shorts and flip flops are a distant memory lately. Probably hard to imagine for those of you up in the Northern Hemisphere hot days of summer. Many nights have dropped [...]
For the past several months we have been discussing together the meaning of covenant and creating a covenant framework to put into practice in community. As a result of this process we realized the need to express our corporate spirituality that would give meaning and depth to our covenant with one another. The following statement [...]
Thank you for partnering with us in prayer! Here are some prayer needs for July from Buenos Aires.
1) The winter chill has settled in for a few months. Please pray for our friends who live on the streets who spend their days and nights in the cold. Our friends who live in poor communities outside [...]
A Journey Into God’s Resurrection Created World:
A Celebration of the Easter Season
By Christine Sine
A Litany of Hospitality
The following litany, which incorporates several Celtic prayers, revolves around the practice of hospitality. Use it to focus your minds and hearts on the call to be Christ’s hospitality to our world. Brigit’s prayer, at the end [...]
God, you have set us free
Not free to do what we please
But free to love you with our whole heart gladly
Free to love our neighbors as we do ourselves.
God, we need to know your freedom
Free us from our selfishness
Free us from our indifference to the plight of the poor
Free us to love and serve you [...]