Welcome to the Episcopal Diocese of
Washington Spirituality Site. We hope to provide you with many resources
to help further your spiritual journey.
Web Site Resources
O gracious light Though the days are growing shorter, gracious light still shines through the Windows of Washington National Cathedral. This audio visual meditation, inspired by the Phos Hilaron features the photographs of Walter P. Calahan and the music of The Princeton Singers. It is an offering to a God who is “worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices.”
A
selection of Prayer and Spirituality sites from the Web
Mission Saint Clare provides the full
text of Morning and Evening Prayer drawn from the Book of Common
Prayer. It also includes orders for noon prayer and Compline, and
individual devotions.
Sacred Space invites you to make a "Sacred
Space" in your day, spend ten minutes, praying here and
now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of on-screen guidance
and scripture chosen specially every day.
The spirituality of A Christmas Carol
The conversation will be led by Linda Freeman of St. Luke's Bethesda, a member of diocesan council and a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Maryland, College Park.
2005 Online Advent Calendar
Behind each numbered window (one will be uncovered each day in December) will be a photograph of a figure from the National Cathedral's 16th annual crèche exhibit.
2004 Online Advent
Calendar
On December 1, the Diocese and Cathedral launched an online Advent calendar on the diocesan site at edow.org. If you visited the calendar, and clicked on an appropriate number, you were taken to an image from the crèche exhibit then on display in the Cathedral's rare book library. And if you explored further, you could follow a link to a daily meditation, chosen by St. Columba's parishioner Vicki Black, former managing editor at Cowley Publishing. Or a link to a site that allows you to pray the liturgy of the hours at your computer. Or a link to one of the many giving opportunities in Episcopal Relief and Development's seasonal catalog. Our Web traffic increased by roughly 250% during Advent: to an average of more than 1,650 visits and more than 113,000 hits per day.
Start a Lenten devotion. Meditate on the mystery
of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Begin with these
meditations.
Multi-media spirituality
sites:
PrayerWindows.com teaches users how to include
art in their meditation, and offers a gallery of original images
accompanied by scriptural passages and reflections.
