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The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard is a short daily podcast offering stillness, clarity and spiritual grounding - a moment of calm in a busy, noisy world.Hosted by Brother Richard, a Capuchin Franciscan friar and meditation teacher, each episode draws on the Christian…
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Prayer of Saint Francis Meditation (Part 4): Sense and Knowledge (opens the original)
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In this meditation, I bring our series on the Prayer of Saint Francis before the Crucifix to a close, reflecting on the final petition of the prayer: the desire for sense and knowledge. Knowledge can give us information, but discernment helps us understand what matters and how we should respond. Francis asks for both — for a deeper awareness that allows us to choose wisely and to act with greater attention, compassion and openness to divine grace. We begin by settling into the body and breath, l
Emotional Awareness Meditation: Unravelling the Fibres (opens the original)
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In this meditation, I explore how meditation can help us move beneath the surface of our emotional life and begin to understand the many influences that shape a feeling or reaction. We begin by settling into the body, releasing tension and becoming grounded in the breath and the present moment. From this place of stability, we bring to mind a recent experience of happiness or joy and observe it carefully. Rather than simply enjoying the memory, we begin to ask where that emotion came from. What
Coffee Meditation: Mindfulness in an Everyday Moment (opens the original)
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In this meditation, I explore how something as ordinary as drinking a cup of coffee can become a contemplative practice. As a Capuchin Franciscan, I can even claim a particular connection with coffee through Blessed Mark of Aviano, whose story became associated with the cappuccino. You can practise this meditation with coffee, tea or another warm drink, either holding a real cup or simply visualising the experience. We begin by feeling the warmth and weight of the cup in our hands. We notice its
Elijah Meditation (Part 3): The Earthquake (opens the original)
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In this meditation, I return to the story of Elijah in the First Book of Kings and to the archetypal map of meditation practice we find in his experience of the cave. In previous meditations, we considered the storm as an image of the thoughts, sensations and emotions that can distract us when we seek stillness, and the fire as an image of our desire for reality to be different from what it is. Today we encounter Elijah’s third trial: the earthquake. The earthquake represents those periods of li
Gratitude Meditation: Giving Thanks for Others (opens the original)
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In this meditation, I return to the practice of gratitude and focus particularly on giving thanks for the people who have brought goodness, love and connection into our lives. Gratitude is one of the values at the heart of meditation. Learning to count our blessings and recognise what is good, even when circumstances are difficult, can help us develop greater equanimity and stability. After settling into the body and breath, we begin to bring to mind the people closest to us. They might be famil
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