Your Sunday Retreat with Christa Mastrangelo Joyce

Your Sunday Retreat with Christa Mastrangelo Joyce

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Wisdom
with numbered excerpts from Mary Oliver's "To Begin With, the Sweet Grass"
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The Ministry of Imagination
“It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one…
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Oiling the Hinges
Lord, oil the hinges of our hearts doors that they may swing gently and easily to welcome your coming. ~Prayer from New Guinea
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May 2025

A House for Life and Death
Your Sunday Retreat with Christa Mastrangelo Joyce is a contemplative place to retreat through word and motion.
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Hope in Individuals
Your Sunday Retreat with Christa Mastrangelo Joyce is a space for hope and restoration.
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Feeding Each Other
There’s a story I love that begins in the early morning hours with a group of fishermen on the sea.
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My Own Personal Retreat
Friends, yesterday my oldest graduated from high school, a journey that I’ve been largely involved in as one of her teachers.
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Agency
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
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April 2025

To End April
What to Remember When Waking, by David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret…
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Deep Truth
I listened to a new On Being podcast episode this week, in which Krista Tippet is speaking to Justin Vernon, the artist better known as Bon Iver.
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The Rowing Team
Recently, I heard Nadia Bolz Weber tell the story of her “rowing team,” the group of humans she does “church” with, a bunch of people who don’t quite…
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