Contemplate This

Contemplate This explores the deepening dimensions of silence and contemplation.

Painted sign that says, "Be Kind" (Unsplash/Adam Nemeroff)

Cultivate kindness this pre-election season

By Nancy Sylvester
Hand holding a compass (Unsplash/Frames For Your Heart)

Where did all the Sisters go? GSR's stories answer the question.

By Nancy Sylvester
Yellow daffodils (Unsplash/Yoksel Zok)

Follow the daffodil. There is only light in front of us.

By Nancy Sylvester
An image from "The Meaning of Mandela" space in "Mandela: The Official Exhibition," a global touring exhibit about Nelson Mandela that is currently showing at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan (Courtesy of The Henry Ford/©Jim Marks)

Giving thanks for those who lived out of love

By Nancy Sylvester
A map of the United States on a globe (Dreamstime/Littleny)

With great diversity, we are still one nation

By Nancy Sylvester
Attendees of the annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests discuss their ministry in the context of synodality during a table discussion on June 14 at the University of San Diego. (Dennis Sadowski)

Priests' meeting put into practice living synodality in a polarized world

By Nancy Sylvester
Eyeglasses looking at miniature people (Pixabay/Wilfried Pohnke)

Opening our eyes to seeing differently

By Nancy Sylvester
A single key on a string (Unsplash/Konstantin Evdokimov)

One key can unlock all the doors. Are you willing to open them?

By Nancy Sylvester
Seeing (Unsplash/Dmitry Ratushny)

A new year invites us to see in new ways

By Nancy Sylvester
The place of my daily prayer was recently invaded by the need to fix the mortar of the house I live in. (Nancy Sylvester)

Can progress hold both paradise and parking lots?

By Nancy Sylvester
Mist on a lake (Unsplash/Todd Aarnes)

When the future is obscured, we need radical trust

By Nancy Sylvester
Star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula, captured by the Near-Infrared Camera on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

Don't forget to walk around the corner

By Nancy Sylvester
Alarm clock in thawing ice (Dreamstime/Tibor Ďuriš)

'Will you wake for pity's sake!'

By Nancy Sylvester
Elderly hands holding flowers (Unsplash/Sincerely Media)

Resist weariness, fan passion, offer hope to younger generations

By Nancy Sylvester
A woman with a child evacuates from a residential building damaged by Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 16. (CNS/Reuters/State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

Lenten lamentation: Help us imagine new possibilities for world peace

By Nancy Sylvester
(Unsplash/Mikael Kristenson)

Time to renew your contemplative journey this Lent

By Nancy Sylvester
Flower buds in the snow (Unsplash/Johannes Plenio)

Seeds on the winter snow: The New Year doesn't feel very new

By Nancy Sylvester
Epiphany star (Unsplash/Aziz Acharki)

This Epiphany season, let us reclaim our soul

By Nancy Sylvester
(Unsplash/Elena Mozhvilo)

An Advent calendar for today

By Nancy Sylvester
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Strangers no more: Moving from fragmentation to wholeness

By Nancy Sylvester