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
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.
FROM SEPTEMBER 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
When I become disheartened by how elusive justice seems on so many fronts, help me to remember that I am a Resurrection person. It is through Christ, the one I call Love, that I find hope.
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 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.
FROM MARCH 2023 INTERCESSION PAPER
God, creator of the universe, you see our beautiful planet held in your loving hands, without borders and without divisions. We know it is your desire that we love and serve one another as you so generously modeled for us
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.