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  • When the Holy Trinity Speaks in the Trees

    June 16, 2025 /

    I thought I would share one of my regular prayer practices.  It might be something you want to try.  I have a colloquy early in the morning with the Holy Trinity.  Colloquy is a fancy word Saint Ignatius uses for ‘conversation’.  Before entering many of his Spiritual Exercises, he said to have a colloquy with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, “speaking as one friend speaks to another”.  (SE 54)  I got in the habit of doing one when I was doing the Spiritual Exercises last year.  I’ve continued the practice most mornings.  I live on a cove off of Lake Norman surrounded by trees.  In my preferred…

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