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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 22m

THE WISDOM OF NIGHT PRAYER lies in fostering spiritual connection, promoting peace, and providing guidance for the future. It offers a time for reflection, repentance, and gratitude, allowing individuals to release the day's burdens and prepare for a new one.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 34m

PONDER:
The poor long for riches and the rich for heaven,
but the wise long for a state of tranquility

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 59m

LOVIN' IT!
This is how I would explain the unseen to those who want to expand their beliefs beyond what is physically visible.
Love is just that, it exists, you can feel it, but your perception of it depends on your experiences, beliefs, and circumstances.

Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 1h

HERMIT RULE 12:
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil.

Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 1d

CANTICLE OF THE CREATURES: St Francis of Assisi
Sing along...
Or just listen
Thanks Simon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vskk...

Canticle of the Creatures

YouTube video by Simon de Voil

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 1d

MORNING PRAYER:
Lord of the morning,
Thank you for the gift of this new day.
Renew my heart and mind with your grace,
that I may see the world through your eyes.
Help me to walk in your ways, to be a light to others,
and to use the gifts you have given me for your glory.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 1d

THE SOLITUDE & QUIETUDE of morning meditation offers us a peaceful space for reflection and a deeper connection with our faith and God. So we pause in this fast-paced world to renew our focus before the day begins. And so it does...Good morning!

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 1d

HERMIT RULE 11:
Live one day at a time. Take advantage of the moments and the dawns. Discover in each moment, in landscapes, in music and in all manifestations of beauty, the depth of your true interior solitude.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 2d

ENJOY LIFE:
Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able enjoy it. No we just enjoy it.
Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have this capacity.
WE can be in touch with these things, right now.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 2d

MORNING PRAYER:
I Arise Today
Listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqxz...

I ARISE TODAY

YouTube video by PHILIP CHIRCOP

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 2d

WORLD IN HARMONY:
"Living in harmony" refers to the state of getting along peacefully and cooperatively with others, oneself, and the environment, often involving respect, understanding, and a reduction in conflict and negativity. Peace be with you:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZti...

Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

YouTube video by Santi Toselli

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 2d

HERMIT RULE 10:
Don’t settle down in or get tied to a rigid timetable. Stay within a harmonious order that you can easily change. Try to integrate surprise and the unexpected. Live in the silence of your own interior and cultivate peace.

Visual Harmony - peace - world peace.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 3d

MORNING PRAYER:
Lord of Life, may today bring… paths to discover, possibilities to choose, people to encounter, peace to possess, promises to fulfil, pardon to accept and a Presence to proclaim.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 3d

PEACE... is the fairest form of happiness...

William Ellery Channing 1780-1842

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 3d

FINDING THE BEAUTIFUL:
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1803 - 1882)

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 3d

FROM THE UPANISHADS:
May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes the hermit daily rule parallels our prayers for the world. May this glimmer of hope come to full light
HERMIT RULE 9
Know that although you feel yourself in the mystery of exile, the Kingdom of Heaven is already within you and all is One sacred universe beloved of God

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 3d

Peace in Gaza... Can it really be true? The critical elements are certainly in place to open the door to an agreement within the Arab world - the beginning of the end... we hope, we pray.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 4d

THE GOSPEL OF JOHN:
The word became flesh and dwelt among us...

De darkness. It won't be long before you see the light. Gaze at things. It won't belong before you see The Word.
Do you see Him yet?

Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 4d

You can't have everything. Where would you put it!?
Seriously, The World Health Organisation's decision to class hoarding as a disorder may improve public understanding.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 4d

SILENCE - A CORNERSTONE:
The American Indian believes profoundly in silence, the sign of perfect equilibrium. The man who is ever calm, unshaken by the storms of existence has the mind of the unlettered sage. He will tell you that Silence is the cornerstone of character.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 4d

BE STILL:
Let us spend one day as deliberately as nature and not be thrown off track by trifles. Let us rise early & fast or break fast gently without perturbation and not be upset by rapid and whirlpool. If a bell rings why should we run?
Henry Thoreau 1817 - 1862.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 4d

HERMIT RULE 8:
Work in silence, without saying what you do. Don't look for recognition or applause. Accept what providence itself affords you in relation to your actions.

Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 5d

EVENING BLESSING:
Lord of Spring-time, our awakening to wonder, Lord of Summer, of splendour and richness, Lord of Autumn, of growing and gathering, Lord of Winter, of resting and rebirth, We await Your coming, Lord of all Seasons, Lord of all Life… Maranatha… Amen.

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Bodmin Hermit @bodminhermit.bsky.social · 5d

THE CHILD IN ME
When I was a child
I played
and in my playing
found a world where I belonged
Now I am grown
Help me find that belonging again, so that
Being finished with childish things
I do not lose the me that is really me

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