Thoughts on Advent Going into 2024
When Advent comes around again each year, I try to focus on waiting for the wondrous gift of the holy child’s birth. I try not to rush past the waiting to arrive prematurely at the star, the angels and the
SELECTED PRAYERS FROM NOVEMBER 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
Come, Lord God, and gather us together! Help us join hearts and hands. Help us to show forth your light, your truth, your goodness, that despite our differences we may become one united family, reflecting your glory and love to
FROM OCTOBER 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
Dear Heavenly Father, I pray for all of us—humans, animals, and vegetation—who are suffering now and will suffer more in the future due to drastic climate change… Please help us all to save our planet; in Jesus's name.
ADELYNROOD: A PLACE OF PRAYER AND POETRY
For more than ten years, the Companions' spiritual home at Adelynrood has been a "thin place" for me, a place where I have found spiritual nourishment, friendships, and a chance to deepen my experience of prayer as a creative activity.
FROM JULY/AUGUST 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
When we sing in harmony there is a sweet spirit that engulfs us to do justice, love God, our neighbor, ourselves, and all creation. Oh, to experience that outrageous joy.
FROM JUNE 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
Every month Companions receive a small booklet in the mail, the Intercession Paper. In this monthly feature of our blog, we select some prayers from this month’s IP, as it is called. If you’re so inclined, please join Companions in
FROM MAY 2023 THANKSGIVING PAPER
Our founder, Emily Morgan, began the tradition in the 1890s of having the May IP given over to thanksgivings.
FROM APRIL 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
For those who are fighting for a better world, for those who keep your image in their hearts and pray.
At This Time of Year
I ask myself, what is it like to be a Companion at this time of year? … Ah! Everything has gone quiet for Holy Week and Easter Day One.
Episcopalians Remember Emily Malbone Morgan on February 25th
Emily Malbone Morgan, the founder of the Companions, is celebrated February 25 in the Episcopal Church’s liturgical calendar. We received an invitation to preach at Yale Divinity School's Berkeley Center in February. The subject: why Miss Morgan has a place