Community Scribing Session: 11.IX.2018
CONTEMPLATE: SCRIBE – (On your own) PROMPT: RESPOND: When you have finished scribing as part of our community session, feel free to comment below about your experience. […]
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Are you a Soulful Scribe?
“I am Goscelin, the scribe. On these pages I will record the stories of our community, the sisters of Belle Coeur, and my observations of the formidable events that befell […]
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The Hidden Wisdom of Symbols as Cyphers
When I was a child, I learned from Miss Lunn, my fifth-grade teacher, that Leonardo da Vinci wrote many of his notations in his notebooks…backward. For others to decipher the […]
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Autumn Reverie
September. The changing seasons, God’s marking of time as transformative cycles of creation. A divine plan for continuity and metamorphosis are inextricably woven together. At this time of year, here […]
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Practicing Journal Prayer
This post is the second in our series about Journal Prayer by guest blogger Bridget Mary Meehan. The first post “Exploring ‘Journal Prayer’ as a Devotional Practice” explored how journaling […]
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Exploring “Journal Prayer” as Devotional Practice
We are pleased this month, during our exploration of the Belle Coeur Chamber of Devotion, to offer the wisdom of Bridget Mary Meehan as the first guest-blogger for Herstoriae. In […]
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The Devotion of Living in Limbo
August is a month of in-between. Summer is waning and autumn has not yet arrived. This month, the invitation is to take pause to contemplate the myriad forms of Devotion, one of four alchemical chambers of Belle Coeur spirituality. Devotion can be expressed reflectively, creatively, and sacredly.
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Tending the Garden of the Soul
Garden accoutrements seem to be displayed everywhere this time of year. Statues including pink flamingos, smiling gnomes, somersaulting children, flop-eared bunnies, and plump frogs are tucked into shrubs and carefully […]
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Embracing downtime to enrich your sacred practices
The longer days and warmer weather of Summer cause our daily routines to slow down and shift. Last summer, during a vacation in the Finger Lakes region of New York, […]
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Onward We Go
The house smelled of earth and smoke and a subtle ether of womanly visions. ~Ink and Honey While I was writing the story of Ink and Honey, I frequently made little […]
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