FROM FEBRUARY 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
O Lord, your power extends over all the earth, over all of creation. You made the heavens and the earth and all that exists therein. Grant us grace and insight to practice true giving. May we be like the widow
FROM JANUARY 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
JOIN US IN PRAYER Every month Companions receive a small booklet in the mail, the Intercession Paper. Day by day, we turn its pages, praying with our Companions. The prayers concern needs big and small, thanksgivings, and the aims of
FROM DECEMBER 2022 INTERCESSION PAPER
In Advent we light candles as a stay against the night. And with these lights we are reminded that each day is a day to be fully lived, to be received as gift, as Mary received the Holy Spirit.
GIVING THANKS IN ALL SEASONS
The Psalmist is eloquent about the goodness and beauty of creation. We are provided with the image of a joyful God tossing stars into the sky to light our way and throwing stars onto the earth and into the sea,
FROM NOVEMBER 2022 INTERCESSION PAPER
Companions receive a monthly publication, the Intercession Paper, containing our collected prayers for others and the world on the themes of our vows. We are united as we pray these prayers. These are selections from the November 2022 issue.
FROM OCTOBER 2022 INTERCESSION PAPER
In our daily encounters, help us to remember the richness of your love, as we love others. Help us to live as followers of The Way, trusting in you.
FROM SEPTEMBER 2022 INTERCESSION PAPER
When we are bewildered in our prayer life by the enormity of the distress and suffering in the world, may we recall with thanksgiving the wise words of our dear founder, Emily Malbone Morgan, in one of her letters in
Home to Adelynrood: 2022 Companion Conference
In September 2019 I said "yes" to an invitation to lead our 2021 Companion Conference. In June 2022, after two summers of pandemic closure, I stepped back on the grounds of Adelynrood at last, two days ahead of the postponed
The Earth is God’s: 2022 Companion Conference
Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of New Hampshire, recently released a video report from the Lambeth Conference about the bishops’ discussion on care for creation. I liked that our virtual Companion Conference on creation care, on Saints Francis and Clare, on Vida
God’s Call to Francis: 2022 Companion Conference
Jackie Schmitt talked about how Francis of Assisi inspired the early Companions to become leaders in different movements, using various gifts to reach out to help those on the margins of society. Stephanie Spellers invited us to reflect on what