Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Today’s meditation is on changing our lives by changing our thinking. So, just before Jesus bursts on the scene in the Gospel of Matthew The no-nonsense, utterly serious John the Baptist Comes with an utterly serious message, … [Continue reading]
Today’s meditation is on not being afraid, but rather, acting with wisdom. Do not be afraid, the angel in the dream tells Joseph: Marry your fiancée, Mary, who is showing, despite your chaste restraint, for in our magical world, in … [Continue reading]
The Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible ends on an ecstatic note, “The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. Maranatha. Come Lord … [Continue reading]
Hello, welcome to the second episode of Christian meditation with Anita Mathias. Let’s close our eyes, and detach from the world, and begin to enter the inner sanctuary of the soul. The best way of calming down is by focusing on our … [Continue reading]
Hi Friends, Welcome to a new podcast, Christian Meditation with Anita. This is the first episode. Over the last four years, meditation has begun to change my life. A session of meditation before I write calms and focuses my mind and helps me … [Continue reading]
Rosaries at the Grotto During May, “The Month of our Lady,” Father Jesus Calvo, the Spanish parish priest, corralled the entire Catholic community of Jamshedpur at the grotto of St. Mary’s Church: a cave constructed of rocks and mortar, overplanted … [Continue reading]
I have always hungrily sought joy–primarily in reading and poetry as a child and teen… And, having lived in some beautiful places in my life, such as Nainital in the Himalayas during boarding school; and in Norham Gardens, facing the University … [Continue reading]
Writing a memoir awakens fierce memories of the past. For the past is not dead; it’s not even past, as William Faulkner observed. So what does one do with this undead past? Forgive. Forgive, huh? Forgive. Let it go. Again and again. For, after all, … [Continue reading]