by Kathleen Staudt | Sep 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
This past week I’ve felt myself the beneficiary of a prayer offered by and with so many of my friends and companions in our evening or night prayers. It goes,”Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give thine angels...
by Kathleen Staudt | Aug 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
I tend to be kind of reserved about personal storytelling, but two invitations just lately have shown me how important it is, sometimes, to find a way, as St. Paul says, to “give an account of the hope that is in me.” In my new book, Shaping a Faithful...
by Kathleen Staudt | May 29, 2021 | nature
I remember the last time brood 10 emerged — featured in the “Poem of the Season” and here Walking in Rock Creek Park yesterday I had time and space to just watch and wonder – some had just emerged from the amazing array of holes they punch in...
by Kathleen Staudt | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am so pleased with this collaborative effort with my sister Beth who is a musician and composer. She has set to music my poem Lenten Villanelle . Here’s the link to the video
by Kathleen Staudt | Dec 8, 2020 | Advent, retreats, spirituality
We come to the Advent season and this year is for me, as for many, a disorienting time: no one coming home for the holidays, so I lose one of my most treasured incarnational symbols of the coming of Love — expressed through all our gatherings. And we have zoom,...