Martha Fish, Author at The HighWay

Mindfulness!

Martha Fish — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:34:28 +0000

It’s a trendy concept now in the Health and Wellness world. Mindfulness means focusing your attention on what is around you, paying attention to a particular thing, and letting your thoughts and worries go. It is not a new idea—It has been a part of contemplative practice for centuries. Contemplatives are taught to focus on […]

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Around & About the Diocese

Martha Fish — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:02:03 +0000

Mountaintop Service & Picnic at Kootenay Summits Parish On Sunday, August 18, the combined congregations of St John the Evangelist Fruitvale, Christ Church Creston, St Paul’s Salmo, and St. Andrew’s Trail held a Eucharist service on top of Kootenay Pass. It was a beautiful, sunny, and blessedly smoke-free day. 45 people attended, including folks from […]

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St Teresa of Avila

Martha Fish — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 09:42:13 +0000

In our ongoing series on the great Christian mystics, I chose to write about Teresa of Avila, the Spanish 16th century Carmelite nun, author of spiritual works, and founder of several monasteries. She was beatified by Pope Paul V in 1614, & named a Doctor of the Church in 1970, one of only four women […]

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Take Time

Martha Fish — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:16:29 +0000

Time. The wellness gurus tell us to take time to be mindful, to stop our busyness and really pay attention to what is around us. We should not get caught up in the events and mistakes of the past, or worry about the potential problems of the future, but focus on what is happening right […]

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Walking Humbly

Martha Fish — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:20:49 +0000

Spiritual Development Do you ever get the sense that our society is losing all sense of civility? That politeness and courtesy are becoming things of the past? Too often you see people interrupt each other or barge in to get to the head of the line, and politicians seem to spend their time insulting each […]

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Letting Go of Undue Suffering

Martha Fish — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 23:54:56 +0000

By the time you read this, we will be in the season of Lent. Many of you will have attended an Ash Wednesday service, either virtually or in person. The celebrant will have invited you “to observe a holy Lent by self-examination, penitence, prayer, fasting, and alms giving, and by reading and meditating on the […]

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Recharging our Batteries

Martha Fish — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:18:10 +0000

I am writing this column in mid-October, when the red and golden leaves on the hillsides are so colourful. it is as if they give a glorious visual shout of joy. You will be reading this in early December, when the leaves have fallen, and the early snows have started.

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Sacred Creation

Martha Fish — Sat, 01 May 2021 16:58:47 +0000

There are many forms of prayer. There is prayer that uses words: liturgical prayer, intercessory prayer, prayers of praise and adoration. There is spontaneous prayer, that springs to our hearts and lips when we are deeply moved, or when we feel overwhelmed.

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