Praying with Icons
A step-by-step walk through the practice of praying with icons. Prayer is done online with icons offered by Upper Rooms.
D365
A series of reflections with music written especially for students. A quiet space for contemplation and prayer.
Chanting
Try a chanting exercise from the CD Inside Chants. Chanting engages your body, mind, and spirit in prayer. As musician Ana Hernandez puts it, the sounds of chants "turns to energy, feeding our brain, causing it to relax. We let down our guard, defenses fall away, and we can hear our heart beating." Chanting focuses our being to let us hear the voice inside.
Daily Office
Read the Daily Office in either English or Spanish. The Daily Office provides a discipline of acknowledging God's presence through set prayers and readings throughout each day. Morning and Evening Prayers are common practices. Monastic communities often gather five times a day for prayer.
Morning Prayer
Podcast of morning prayer. Psalms are from "Psalms for the Christian People." May subscribe for automatic download.
Pray-As-You-Go
Pray-as-you-go offers daily prayer podcasts to download to your iPod or audio player. It guides listeners on their daily journey to work, school, or college through prayer and readings from the Jesuit's daily lectionary. Produced by Jesuit Media Initiatives.
Finger Labyrinth
Veriditas offers an online finger labyrinth to do at your desk. A labyrinth is a sacred pattern in the shape of a circle with one path that winds to the center and back out again. The labyrinth reflects the unity and wholeness of creation and our lives. Enter the labyrinth with by gently offering a question or situation to God with an attitude of openness. Click on the image to launch the labyrinth.
Anglican Prayer Beads
King of Peace Episcopal Church in Kingsland George provides these step-by-step instructions how to pray with Anglican prayer beads.
Taize
Audio of taize music.
Sacred Space
Daily prayer reflections in a variety of languages. Produced by the Irish Jesuits.
Book of Common Prayer
Download portions of the Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church and Books of Common Prayer for a few other Provinces in the Anglican Communion. The Book of Common Prayer provides liturgies, prayers and instructions so that all Episcopalians share in a common worship.
Oremus
A site of prayer resources including the calendar of saints, hymnal resources, the prayer book, and a searchable Bible. Oremus is Latin for "let us pray."
Mandalas
View mandalas from all over the world at the Mandala Project. A mandala is a circular pattern of lines and colors. Drawing a mandala can reveal your inner thoughts and God's voice to you.
Centering Prayer
Begin a 20-minute centering prayer exercise from St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. The Lord's Prayer ends the 20-minute silence. Centering prayer quiets and stills our body, mind, and spirit so that we may know God's presence in our innermost parts. It is a practice of deep breathing, detaching from thoughts, and traveling to where God dwells in us.
Explore Faith
Numerous resources for prayer, faith spirituality, and God.
Gratefulness
A site dedicated to supporting a life of gratitude. Visitors can sent e-cards and sign up to receive a word for the day.
Labyrinth
A contemporary labyrinth that includes music, meditations, art, media and symbolic activities at intervals along the way.