The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air

Angela Montano
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Prayer is an instinct to reach beyond the perceptions that cause us to suffer. In this podcast, Angela Montano invites listeners to allow prayer to renew the mind and open the heart.

  1. 6d ago

    #177: Dwelling in Possibility: What if Love is Already Leading the Way?

    Prayer is a language we're always just beginning to fathom. That simple but profound reflection opens this week's episode and sets the stage for an exploration of what it means to dwell in possibility rather than survival. In this episode, Angela invites us to loosen our grip on fear, stop strategizing from survival, and become more receptive to the love that is always here. As we do, old stories begin to lose their hold, fear softens, and new possibilities emerge. As Angela reminds us, Prayer on the Air is more than a podcast. It is a global prayer without ceasing community. Someone is always tuned into this podcast from somewhere in the world, holding the light of love for you and me. Because we all drift. Into fear. Into self-doubt. Into toxic shame. Into unhealthy guilt. As Anne Lamott writes, "My mind is like a bad neighborhood. Better not enter in alone." Prayer gently illuminates those dark places with love, helping us become, even if only by "one one-trillionth," a little less afraid. In this episode, Angela explores: Why you don't have to be "good" at prayerWhat it means to be husbanded by the universeMoving from survival into creativity, kindness, and serviceFollowing the golden breadcrumbs instead of forcing outcomesLiving with both receptivity and intentional actionWhy prayer is a distribution system for love This week's prayers include opening to loving relationship without grasping, discovering new forms of comfort after releasing old coping patterns, and surrendering into a deeper trust. Come exactly as you are. Someone, somewhere, is holding the light of love with you. —----- Join Angela LIVE every Monday for Prayer on the Air at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET. Bring your questions, challenges, celebrations, and prayer requests as Angela lovingly facilitates each gathering from a spiritual perspective and offers live prayer with participants. Together, we become part of a powerful collective consciousness, holding the light of love for one another through prayer. Sign up to receive reminders and the Zoom link at angelamontano.com.

  2. Jul 21

    #176: Peace Before the Circumstances Change

    There is a word that comes up often in prayer that most of us find complicated: Surrender. For many of us it sounds like defeat, like giving up, like one more thing we have to do after already doing everything we could think of. But in this episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, Angela offers a different way of seeing it. Surrender, she suggests, is not resignation. It is the willingness to let the architecture of suffering dissolve, to release the conviction that our peace must wait until circumstances finally go the way we need them to go.  And once we have surrendered into that mystery, something else becomes possible: asking. Not asking from lack or shame or the desperate hope that getting what we want will finally make us feel worthy. Asking from wholeness. From esteem. From the quiet audacity of believing that even me, even I, deserve more. This in-breath and out-breath of prayer, surrender and opening, is the heart of this week's conversation. Through deeply moving prayer requests, Angela shows us how the practice of surrender and opening can meet us exactly where we are, even in the places that feel most intractable. Sandra is navigating an extraordinary opportunity with her son, recognizing that true peace does not depend on another. What freedom there is in letting go of that need for another to be whom we 'think' we need them to be, and what a gift it is to take that pressure off of both mother and son.Kate's beloved horse Bonfire has withdrawn after a difficult training session, and together they discover that love is present even in the distance, even in the space that doesn't yet look the way Kate feels she needs it to be. Through prayer, we open to the deeper perfection unfolding.Chris brings something so many of us are carrying right now, the weight of watching cruelty unfold in the world, from war to trafficking, and the anguished question of where God is in any of it.Her response to Chris carries the heart of the whole episode: “Love can never be absent, but Love needs a witness.” Prayer, she reminds us, is how we become that witness. It is how we send love into the places where it appears most dormant, trusting that something is happening even when we cannot see it. In this episode: Releasing the dualistic mindset that keeps peace just out of reachAsking from a place of wholeness, not lackAllowing the architecture of suffering to dissolveThe Krishnamurti teaching on peace that changes everythingHow love is present even in distance, even in silenceBecoming a witness to love in the places where it appears most dormant About Prayer on the Air Prayer on the Air is a live weekly gathering where people from more than 75 countries come together to pray, reflect, and remember the presence of love at the center of all things. Register for an invitation to join us live each Monday at angelamontano.com

  3. Jul 13

    #175: The Incredible Life of the Modern-Day Mystic

    In this heartfelt episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, Angela explores what it means to live as a modern-day mystic in the midst of ordinary life.  While monasteries offer a stable environment for practicing the presence of God, most of us navigate work, relationships, uncertainty, and a world that often feels anything but steady. The invitation, Angela reminds us, is not to escape life, but to meet it with a deeper awareness of peace, love, and the divine presence that is always available. Through powerful prayer requests from members of the community, this conversation touches on releasing the trance of scarcity, trusting the long and winding road of love, reclaiming what is ours instead of believing it has been taken from us, and discovering how an open heart and healthy boundaries can exist together.  Along the way, Angela returns to a simple yet profound reminder from A Course in Miracles: "I let peace be my only goal today." Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, navigating conflict, or simply longing to return to your center, this episode offers a gentle invitation to practice the presence, release stressful thinking, and remember that more is going on than meets the eye. Prayer, Angela reminds us, is the way we walk ourselves home to the love that is. In this episode: What it means to live as a modern-day mystic Practicing the presence of God in everyday life Releasing the trance of scarcity and trusting divine abundance Reclaiming what is yours without living in judgment Holding both an open heart and healthy boundaries Using stress as a cue to return to prayer A Course in Miracles reminder: "I let peace be my only goal today." About Prayer on the Air Prayer on the Air is a live weekly gathering where people from around the world come together to pray, reflect, and remember the presence of love at the center of all things. Register for an invitation to join us live each Monday at angelamontano.com

  4. Jul 6

    #174: Creating Spaciousness Through Loving Kindness

    What if peace doesn't come from solving every problem, but from creating a little more space around them? In this episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, Angela explores how loving kindness toward ourselves becomes a doorway into greater spaciousness, presence, and freedom. Drawing from contemplative wisdom, Buddhist practice, and the heart of prayer, Angela reflects on the difference between self-love and self-acceptance, introduces the simple yet profound practice of the inner smile, and shares how releasing the constant habit of judging life as "good" or "bad" allows us to step off the ego's endless hamster wheel. Together, the community prays with two participants, one seeking deeper embodied presence and another discovering how an ordinary disagreement over the cost of moving a plant uncovered an old story of scarcity. Rather than seeing these moments as problems to fix, Angela invites us to recognize them as opportunities to awaken to the abundance, compassion, and goodness that have been present all along. In this episode you'll discover: Why loving kindness creates spaciousness in your beingThe gentle practice of the "inner smile"How acceptance differs from resignationA simple phrase that interrupts habitual judgment: "Good or bad, I don't know."How everyday triggers can become invitations to awakening rather than evidence that something is wrong If you've been carrying too many thoughts, too much striving, or too much self-judgment, this conversation offers a gentle invitation to soften, breathe, and discover the spaciousness that has been waiting beneath the story. ––– About Prayer on the Air The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air is a live weekly gathering where people from more than 75 countries come together to pray, reflect, and remember the presence of love at the center of all things. We welcome you to join us live each Monday Angela records live. Register at ⁠https://angelamontano.com/podcast⁠ to receive the Zoom link.

  5. Jun 22

    #173: What If You Didn't Add Another Thought?

    What happens when fear arises—and we don't add another thought? In this episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, Angela reflects on a recent experience with Eckhart Tolle and explores a form of prayer that requires no words at all. When we are disturbed, the mind quickly begins constructing a story. It adds meaning, prediction, judgment, and fear. But what if prayer is not about fixing the experience or escaping it? What if prayer is the willingness to remain present with it? Angela explores the distinction between what Eckhart Tolle calls the pain body and the deeper Presence beneath it, the inner body, or what some traditions call the subtle body.  She shares how silent prayer can become an intensification of Presence—a direct encounter with the peace that exists before thought, beneath thought, and beyond thought. Together we explore fear, reactivity, the healing power of the pause, and the surprising freedom that becomes available when we stop resisting what we feel. Fear tells us something is missing. Love tells us we already have what we need. This conversation is an invitation to bring the light of awareness to whatever is arising and discover that peace may be much closer than the mind would have us believe. ––– Join Angela Montano, Mark Anthony Lord, and other teachers for a six-week online experience exploring prayer as a living, transformative practice beginning July 7, 2026. If you're feeling called to deepen your relationship with prayer in a real, grounded, and transformational way, learn more here: https://markanthonylord.me/project-prayer/?am_id=angela ––– About Prayer on the Air The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air is a live weekly gathering where people from more than 75 countries come together to pray, reflect, and remember the presence of love at the center of all things. We welcome you to join us live each Monday Angela records live. Register at https://angelamontano.com/podcast to receive the Zoom link.

  6. Jun 16

    #172: Living From the Intelligence of the Heart

    How do we honor what we're feeling without becoming identified with it? In this Prayer on the Air gathering, Angela explores how prayer creates space between ourselves and whatever we are experiencing. As she questions the familiar belief, "I alone must," she invites us to consider whether we are truly doing life by ourselves at all, or whether we are being guided, supported, and carried by the intelligence of the heart.  Together, we explore what it means to live from the heart rather than the fears and demands of the mind. Through prayer and conversation, Angela reflects on ‘control’ versus obedience to inner wisdom, the healing power of compassion, and how our struggles begin to soften when we see them as experiences we are having rather than truths about who we are.  Topics include: Honoring feelings without identifying with themPrayer as a practice of spaciousness and renewalThe illusion of control and trusting inner guidanceCompassion for ourselves and othersRecognizing the "narcissist" in all of us without shameLiving from love instead of fearWhen we pause, become still, and listen deeply, we discover that the heart already knows the way. ### Join Angela and other teachers in exploring prayer as a living, transformative practice through Project Prayer, a 6-week online experience led by her friend and fellow minister, Mark Anthony Lord. First session July 7. Learn more and register here.

  7. Jun 8

    #171: What If This Moment Didn't Need Fixing?

    What if peace isn't found in changing your life, but in changing your relationship to this moment? So many of us move through life evaluating everything: I'm okay. I'm not okay. This is working. This isn't working. I'm ahead. I'm behind. Without even realizing it, we can spend enormous amounts of energy deciding whether life is going well or badly. In this episode of Prayer on the Air, we explore a simple but profound question: What if this moment didn't need fixing? Together, we'll look at what becomes possible when we stop judging every experience and begin meeting life with greater curiosity, compassion, and presence. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the constant habit of evaluating ourselves can be so exhaustingThe difference between your life and your judgment of your lifeHow unhappiness changes when we stop resisting itThe shift from "me-ness" to "here-ness"A simple practice for making peace with what isRather than asking: "How do I fix this?" What if we asked: "What is here?" And what if we could meet whatever we find with awareness instead of judgment? May this conversation support you in laying down the inner scorecard and discovering the peace that is always available.

  8. May 18

    #170: Groundlessness, Grace & The Next Right Thing

    In this deeply moving episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, we explore what it means to live without false certainty and to trust love beneath changing circumstances. Reflecting on motherhood, illness, financial fear, control, and the Buddhist concept of “groundlessness,” Angela invites listeners into a different kind of stability: not control, but presence. Through live prayer requests, this episode becomes a meditation on releasing the ego’s demand for predictability and learning to trust the next right thing. Together, we explore: The healing of separation and fearWhy “life situation” and “life itself” are not the sameThe spiritual practice of agreeing with what isMotherhood, enmeshment, and letting goTrusting divine support during uncertaintyPrayer as instinct, presence, and participation in love This episode includes prayers for: A mother learning to trust her adult son’s journeyA veteran facing financial uncertainty and bureaucratic stressA woman navigating breast cancer, job loss, and surrender“Fearlessness is the order of the day.”

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