by Kathleen Staudt | May 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
My collection of new and selected poems is out now and it’s a strange feeling — I sometimes call it a “postpartum” time — when my poems, some of them recent, some of them taking me through much earlier stages of my life, are out there...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 20, 2022 | Easter, prayer, spirituality, Uncategorized
I am giving a talk soon entitled “attending to Emmaus moments.” – I put it on the schedule at Christ Church Georgetown partly to invite myself to reflect on the way the Emmaus story has been important to me in my journey. The story shows up in Luke...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
I see that I posted the same poem 2 years ago as my “poem of the season” for Eastertide. It is based on a meditation in the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises that I have found fruitful — a scene that must have happened, the risen Jesus appearing to his...
by Kathleen Staudt | Dec 1, 2021 | Advent, attentiveness, prayer, spirituality, Uncategorized
I had the privilege of participating in a conversation with my friend Robyn Wrigley-Carr, who has edited a new Advent collection by Evelyn Underhill, The Music of Eternity. A video of our conversation is posted here:...
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...