Today’s episode of Ministry Monday is sponsored by the 2022 Winter Colloquium, taking place February 14-16 in Nashville, Tennessee. NPM Presents Open Hearts and Minds: Intercultural Mystagogia for Pastoral Leaders, a 3-day event focusing on looking through the lens of interculturalism. How can we best celebrate our differences to create unity in diversity through the experience of community of prayer?
Learn more about the Winter Colloquium at npm.org.
This week is the last week in our Advent series of episodes. We know that you have endured countless rehearsals, questions from your choir members about what time to show up for Midnight Mass, a few run-ins with sick volunteers, and maybe fighting a cold yourself. You’ve had concerts and prayer services, reconciliation services and extra staff meetings…the list goes on. This week’s episode is meant to give you a moment of reprieve before the big week ahead.
Today I speak to Laura Araujo, a classically trained vocalist and founder of the Maps Institute, an organization dedicated to mindfulness and intention for all. Laura helps us ask, “how can we stop and find moments of rest amidst the chaos that lies ahead this week?” Allow me to give you a spoiler: Laura’s advice just takes minutes of your day, and can have a world of benefits.
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Psalm of the Week:
Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
O shepherd of Israel, hearken,
from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power,
and come to save us.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
Once again, O LORD of hosts,
look down from heaven, and see;
take care of this vine,
and protect what your right hand has planted
the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
May your help be with the man of your right hand,
with the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you;
give us new life, and we will call upon your name.
Bio: Laura Araujo
Laura Araujo is the co-founder of The MAPS Institute, a classically trained vocalist, and a practitioner of Ashtanga, classic Indian yoga. She is the creator of the MAPS (Mindfulness, Activation, Purpose, and Surrender) philosophy and is in continual pursuit of helping her students find balance amid the chaos around and within them.
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