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A film made at the monastery of St Anthony the Great in Egypt's eastern desert in 1987, introduced by Bishop Gregory.
St. Antony the Great Monastery
Half an hour on what it costs to commit to anything, and what it costs not to.
archival sermon recording
An hour and a half on how the contemplative tradition changed hands between the desert and the present.
Contemplative Outreach
The hymn that closes matins, sung as the light returns.
Sretensky Monastery Choir
Eleven minutes on real questions, the kind that are not looking for an answer.
Jacob Needleman
Lars Muhl recounts an apparition of Yeshua he experienced in a Copenhagen church, and Naleea Landmann reflects on a saying attributed to Yeshua about not hiding your light.
Lars Muhl
A filmed portrait of Alemu Aga with his ten-stringed begena, shot in Ethiopia by Vincent Moon.
Vincent Moon / Petites Planetes
A talk on the two images he kept returning to when describing what silence is for.
A five-minute guided prayer, the shortest thing he teaches.
Center for Action and Contemplation
Freeman takes the gospel image of the inner room as a description of what happens in silent prayer.
meditatiowccm
An evening at Boston College on Ignatian spirituality and what it offers someone outside the order.
Church in the 21st Century Center
EWTN's own dramatised portrait of the third-century hermits of the Egyptian desert, whose way of life became the basis of Christian monasticism.
EWTN
A 1970s documentary by Richard Bock exploring the 'Jesus in India' theory about his unrecorded years, a disputed, non-mainstream theory presented here as one perspective among many.
Sri Sathya Sai International Organization
The fourteenth-century chant that names the signs of Byzantine notation one by one while singing them.
Achilleas Chaldaiakis
An hour on her book The Monastic Heart and on what the monastery has to say to people who will never live in one.
Banyen Books
Where he thought the churches genuinely differ, and where they only think they do.
Ancient Faith
What the desert fathers and mothers did with the thoughts that will not leave, and why they did not treat them as failure.
Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes
A talk on contemplative hope, grounded in the Christian Wisdom tradition.
Original source
A lecture on what the Abrahamic traditions share at their contemplative core and what that asks of them now.
Charis Foundation
A recorded sermon on being undivided, in the voice people describe as the quietest in any room he was in.
His address to the graduating class of Spelman College on 4 May 1980, a year before he died: how to hear your own sound in a world full of noise.
Howard Thurman Digital Archive, Emory
Father Martin and Stephen Colbert talk for an hour about faith, grief and comedy.
America - The Jesuit Review
A full Super Soul Sunday episode in which the Benedictine sister talks about prophetic courage and what she thinks the moment asks of people.
Super Soul Sunday
A film on Hildegard von Bingen's visions, her music and her writing on medicine and the green power of living things.
The Unruly Mystics
An audio recording of the opening Invitatorium movement from Cappella Romana's Vespers of St. Catherine.
Cappella Romana
Five minutes, and his clearest image: every tradition is a window, and no window is the view.
Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality
Two hours with the Irish priest and psychologist on what he sees at stake now, and on where he thinks the work lies.
Spirits in Spacesuits
On why there is never enough time, and what that says about where we think we live.
Michael Goorjian
The daily reality of Trappist life, filmed at Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina and set against the long history of Western monasticism, with Thomas Moore and Kathleen Norris.
Vision Video
An audio recording of the closing movement of Benedict Sheehan's Ukrainian War Requiem, released by the ensemble's own label.
A core theme in her work: personal power and responsibility as the starting point for healing and growth.
Harpa Dei sing the Gregorian hymn Veni Creator Spiritus in harmony, a cappella.
Harpa Dei
A complete live performance of Young Oceans playing Vidi Aquam and All Who Hear in Brooklyn, from their Among the Ruins live series.
Young Oceans
Brother David's widely watched TED talk on gratefulness as a practice, not just a feeling.
A full concert of Serbian Orthodox liturgical chant performed by Divna Ljubojević and the Melodi choir.
Divna & Melódi
A short Daily Meditation from Fox's own channel explaining what he means by deep ecumenism.
Matthew Fox
Paul Schneirla interviews Bede Griffiths for the CBS series For Our Times, on what a Benedictine monk found in India.
Bede Griffiths Trust Archives
Eleven minutes from DW on the merchant's son who walked away from his money, his standing and his future, and what he turned to instead.
DW History and Culture
Aedamar Kirrane reads one of her visions, the Woman of the Fire, in full and at a meditative pace.
Aedamar Kirrane
An hour-long WCCM+ session in which Laurence Freeman discusses writing as a contemplative discipline.
A Maronite hymn for Good Friday, in which Christ addresses his own people from the cross.
Ghada Shbeir
The Benedictine on the death and resurrection of Jesus, in German, read psychologically as much as theologically.
Katholisch-Soziales Institut
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