Desert Mothers: Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wi...

Credits

Where Are the Mothers?

Historical Back Ground: Role of Women

Historical Back Ground: Women Choosing Desert Life

Invitation and Introduction to the Desert Way

Desert Spirituality: Offering Lives Back to God

Radical Forgetting and Conversation Through Remembering

Learning to Not Judge

Learning to Love

Suggestions for Prayer and Reflection

Little World of Ourselves

Desert as a Way of Life

Suggestions for Silence and Stillness

Go to Your Cell

Sondra and Her Cell

Suggestions for Creating a Cell

Announcing the End of the CD

Learning the Art of Discernment

What is Discernment?

THe Role in Silence in the Process of Discernment

Suggestions for Silence and Discernment

Spiritual Guidance: Lovers of Souls

Lovers of Souls

Give Me a Word

Finding a Soul Friend and Teacher of Love

Suggestions for Reflecting on Finding and Becoming a Lover of Souls

The Practice of Humility

The Practice of Repentance

The Passions, or Wounds That Mercy Will Heal

Mercy, Not Judgment

Suggestions for Practicing Humility

Showing Up Daily or Becoming an Ascetic

Discipline of Love

Showing Up for Practice

Suggestions for Relections and Prayer

Living a Dedicated Life: The Ongoing Practice of Listening and Choosing

The Ongoing Practice of Listening and Choosing

Finding the Middle Ground

Living Your Life as Ascetical Practice

Suggestions for Practicing Moderation and Balance

Becoming Fully Human

Suggestions for Prayer and Practice

The Desert is for All of Us

Acknowledgments

Ending Announcements

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