12 episodes
The Viridescent Circle Kirsten Pinto Gfroerer
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The latest project of counsellor, writer and lay theologian, Kirsten Pinto Gfroerer. The podcasts are in the form of letters about the weather of creation and the weather of the soul. They pay attention to the beautiful and terrible vicissitudes of the natural world while pondering the relationship between time and eternity. They are letters of consolation and spiritual formation rooted in the rhythm of the solar year and the Christian tradition of feasting and fasting which punctuates that year.
To learn more about Kirsten’s work visit www.kirstenpintogfroerer.com.
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Hope is the bloom, and the fruit, and the leaf
The lenten winter is over and now we sing hymns of the resurrection and feel the warm breeze on our cheeks. We need to speak of what the resurrection inaugurates; time has been pierced by eternity and now faith, hope and love are inhabitable. And hope is the bloom...
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Holy Week: Attunement
It is the pinnacle of the Christian year and in this letter Kirsten speaks of the way which the drama Holy Week is purposed to draw the adherent and the seeker deeper into the love song of the Trinity in order that our lives might be shaped by it. The energy of spring sings its own part in this glorious music.
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Lent: Blue Skies on Ash Wednesday
In this letter Kirsten reveals the centrality of mercy in our Lenten Pilgrimage and wonders at the way blue skies teach us what we need to know about the height and breadth of the same.
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Epiphany: The Silent Speech of a Frozen Lake
The feast of Christmas is come and gone for another year and we are set down in the daily life of a January Winter. In this letter Kirsten reckons with the speechless message of frozen lakes and newborn stars and probes the invitation to hear and receive the epiphanies all around us.
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Advent II: Stillness at Solstice
This letter is a short, stream of consciousness, poem-like thing. A meditation to inspire going out into the darkest night before the beginning of the feast.
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Advent: Landscapes and The Holy Scriptures
In this letter Kirsten is taken in by the narrative potency of the Advent Lessons and Carol Service. She effuses about the nature and expansive beauty of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures using many metaphors and possibly mixing them.