Last night we had the first of a four-night parish mission at my church, and Father Meoska (who has been in religious life for twenty-five years) gave a talk about practical spirituality. He gave us ten easy steps to leading a more spiritual life:
1. Live more naturally.
2. Live more deliberately.
a. Don’t let the day just happen.
b. Be faithful to the ordinary.
c. Live an ordered existence.
3. Begin and end your days well.
a. Get up earlier and set a quiet tone for the day.
b. Say a morning offering.
c. Examine your conscience at the end of each day.
4. Live each moment mindfully (i.e., in the present).
5. Slow down and live more leisurely.
6. Work more leisurely – busy but not frenetic.
7. Take time for silence and solitude
8. Exercise your whole body, mind and soul.
9. Cultivate a sense of adventure and play.
10. Celebrate the Sabbath with a day of rest.
While these are lessons he learned from the monastic life, I believe they can apply to the rest of us too, and so I am posting them for all my readers.
Famous Hat
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