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Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerNight Prayer for Saturday of Easter Week (John 16)🙏 Gather your family in prayer with our 5-minute bedtime prayer service that includes a short Bible reading.
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đź“– Gain confidence with the scriptures through our weekly Bible Study - join our conversation with the Rev. Dr. Libby Catania for the week of Easter Octave.
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2025-04-2606 min
Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerNight Prayer for Friday of Easter Week (John 16)🙏 Gather your family in prayer with our 5-minute bedtime prayer service that includes a short Bible reading.
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đź“– Gain confidence with the scriptures through our weekly Bible Study - join our conversation with the Rev. Libby Catania for the week of Easter Octave.
Let’s stay connected!
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2025-04-2505 min
Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerPracticing Resurrection: Parenting Through Easter and Beyond: An Easter Bible Study with the Rev. Dr. Libby Catania📖 Gain confidence with the scriptures through our weekly Bible Study. The Rev. Dr. Libby Catania returns to help families explore what resurrection means in the midst of everyday chaos. Reflecting on the beauty and complexity of Easter, Libby reminds us that resurrection doesn’t arrive in perfection but in the messy, sacred middle of life—where God meets us. Together with hosts Natalie and James, she discusses how children often intuitively understand the joy of resurrection through their whole-bodied expressions of delight, and how parents can nurture that instinct with language, practices, and presence.
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2025-04-2524 min
Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerNight Prayer for Good Friday (John 19)Gather your family in prayer with our 5-minute bedtime prayer service that includes a short Bible reading.
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For more on Holy Week -- listen to this episode, our guest the Rev. Dr. Libby Catania leads a thoughtful exploration of how to observe Holy Week as a family.Â
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2025-04-1804 min
Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerNight Prayer for Maundy Thursday (John 17)Gather your family in prayer with our 5-minute bedtime prayer service that includes a short Bible reading.
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For more on Holy Week -- listen to this episode, our guest the Rev. Dr. Libby Catania leads a thoughtful exploration of how to observe Holy Week as a family.Â
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2025-04-1707 min
Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerNight Prayer for Wednesday of Holy Week (John 12)Gather your family in prayer with our 5-minute bedtime prayer service that includes a short Bible reading.
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For more on Holy Week -- listen to this episode, our guest the Rev. Dr. Libby Catania leads a thoughtful exploration of how to observe Holy Week as a family.Â
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2025-04-1605 min
Bedtime Chapel: Family PrayerHoly Week as a Family: A Reflection on Bringing the Sacred Home with the Rev. Dr. Libby CataniaAn extremely timely episode -- this conversation discusses how to engage with Holy Week as a family. We also reference the readings for the week of 04/13 – you can find the prayer services and upcoming reading list here.
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Our guest the Rev. Dr. Libby Catania leads a thoughtful exploration of how to observe Holy Week as a family. She reviews practical and meaningful ways to celebrate the Holy Days—from Palm Sunday to Easter—emphasizing both the liturgical richness of the season and the importance of engaging families in these practices. Libby shares specific ideas and persona...
2025-04-1627 min
Limina : a sacred space for personal transformationReciprocal Love and Being Seen with Holy VisionPreached at the Diocese of Maine Chrism Mass and renewal of baptismal and ordination promises on 8 April 2025 at St Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in Falmouth, ME.
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Based on:
John 12: 1-8
AND the work of Dr. Libby Schrader Polczer on the story of Lazarus and his sister Mary.
2025-04-1023 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationBe More Tree: Sermon for a deacon's ordinationPreached at St. Margaret's Belfast ME on the occasion of the ordination of the Rev. Deacon Kristen Burkholder.
Based on:
Jeremiah 1: 4-9
Psalm 139: 1-17
Philippians 2: 1-11
Luke 22: 24-27
AND the extraordinary book Finding the Mother Tree by Dr. Suzanne Simard
2025-04-1014 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationFollowing your inner fireSometimes we can worry about finding the "right" path for our lives. This podcast invites you to consider that there are many paths to love, healing, and wholeness - no need to worry about missing "THE ONE!" The guidance you seek comes from the internal, divine spark of fire in each of us.
2023-07-0515 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationCoping with sudden change - Habitat for Humanity Devotion & Homeowner StoryIn this devotion at the Habitat for Humanity worksite, I reflected on how we respond to those events in our lives that turn things upside down. I hope you'll listen through to the end, when we were blessed by Carina who shares her story of becoming a homeowner. Please excuse the lower quality of her story as she was standing across the room from my microphone.
2023-03-0411 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationTogether we carry our grief and sorrowThis meditation was offered at a memorial service following the sudden death of a 15-year old boy in our community. He was deeply loved in his family, school, sailing program, swim team, and music studio. His death leaves a gigantic hole in the lives of many people, and hundreds of family and friends gathered to honor Erik and grieve together. Please don't hesitate to reach out through our website if you need help carrying your grief. Abundant blessings to you.
2023-02-0712 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationHabitat for Humanity and the Hope of HanukkahOne of my favorite things to do is to hang out on Habitat work sites. In my mind and heart, no other charitable organization does more to shift generational cycles of home-fragility and limited financial resources - all the while empowering the homeowners and affirming their inherent dignity. Since I have zero skills with tangible things other than fiber, they invite me to talk.... so I offer the morning devotion during snack. Habitat is a Christian organization, but people of all faiths and no faith are more than welcome to work on the sites to make real the dream...
2023-01-0307 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationSeeing with the eyes of the heartOn All Saints' Day, join me as I reflect on the saints in our lives who see us with the eyes of their hearts, and call us to do the same with everyone we meet.
2022-12-0213 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationDemand a blessing during times of struggleReflecting on insights from Geraldine Brooks' new novel Horse, the gospel story of the persistent widow, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (thanks to Francisco Garcia), we explore how God can transform the most difficult times when we persist in prayer and demand a blessing.
2022-11-0114 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationBecoming a thanking personWhen practicing gratitude, can we shift from being people who say "thanks" to being who live a thanking life? Join me as I reflect on the gospel lesson this weekend and explore the nuances of gratitude. You can also read more here.
2022-10-1214 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationPatterns in nature - full of beauty and inspirationJust as our physical bodies reflect the beauty of the Fibonacci sequence, our spirits can reflect the dignity and unconditional love that many of us experience with animals. Read more about this episode on my blog.
2022-10-0711 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationCommunity and living with changeHabitat for Humanity of Cape Cod helps people build and purchase affordable homes. I offer devotions at the worksite, and this devotion on how community and change was given the week after a "Blitz Build." One home, for one family, in one week. STUDENDOUS!
2022-09-2911 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationWe are all lost and worthy of being foundDo patterns of blame and recrimination keep you from seeing the inherent beauty of yourself, other people, and all living things? Join me as I reflect on how we can shift these thought patterns.
2022-09-2814 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationTime for a course correction?Do you get distracted from the goal of a project by the planning? Or make small decisions that pull you off course? This week's musings explore how small changes can have a big impact in our lives.
Check out my blog for more thoughts on this topic.
All music royalty free and performed by Juan Sanchez.
2022-09-0913 minLimina : a sacred space for personal transformationClothed in CompassionIn The Book of Joy, we learn the story of the compassion and love that Anthony Ray Hinton showed to fellow death-row inmates. What can we learn from Tabitha (Acts 9:36-43) about clothing in compassion people who are suffering in any way?
2022-05-1711 min
Emotional DetoxFaith (Interview)Meet Rev. Dr. Libby Gibson Catania. Libby was called as Rector in the summer of 2012, after serving as Senior Associate Rector at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, VA and as an adjunct faculty member at the Virginia Theological Seminary. At the seminary, Libby taught courses in Medical Ethics, Contemporary Anglican Theology, and Prophetic Preaching. While in metropolitan Washington, D.C. Libby regularly worked with an outdoor ministry with the downtown poor called Street Church and was privileged to regularly celebrate the Eucharist at the Pentagon. Prior to seminary, Libby worked as an administrator and adjunct faculty...
2020-07-2923 min