Saturday, January 1, 2011

Sacred Space - Time for Peace


Do you need  a time for peace? Or just some moments of peace?  Do you need to find a sacred space where the sense of the sacred brings you peace? Finding the best website for having a moment of peace is one of the blessings of the internet that could make great difference for the way you will live your life from day to day.

There can be no better discovery than a website that will give you much needed moments in the presence of God, before surfing the net or doing computer work, after some exhausting and hectic schedule, when merely idling for a while, just before ending the day's work or retiring for the night. 

It is a great personal blessing for me to have discovered Sacred Space - the best website for prayer that I find.

Sacred Space is an online prayer site run by the Irish Jesuits.



Sacred Space is peace in the chaotic world of both real and virtual world. It is characterized by simplicity with depth. The site offers prayer and spirituality in the principle of  "less is more", the less that leads to an expanding space virtually,  and on the same vein,  spiritually - at your own pace. Even if you are busy, sacred space is inviting - not daunting with too much offerings - and perhaps more importantly,  when you need to slow down. But should you want to go on and on, the sacred space opens up to inner space - your personal adventure with and in the presence of God who is always there yet always beckoning you beyond, towards more of Him.

The centerpiece of the site for me is the day's prayer.  It is so simple: a word from God taken from the scripture and the appropriate response from me - a line or two. But these are just the beginnings, yet pregnant with the wealth of God's presence and wisdom. One can simply rest on them, repeat them in one's heart and mind or just let them rest within. They are open doors to continuing intimacy with God - and then there's the peace.

The site offers more but in small bites - which however are fully nourishing to the mind, the heart, the spirit . . . 

The homepage and the pages are very fitting to the name of the site. For every page there's a smaller space which is inviting - the contents.

For the non-English internet surfer, Sacred Space is available in Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

What better way to start the New Year and the days thereafter than with Sacred Space. Keep Sacred Space in your tool bar and bookmark it, so you can find your way into blessed peace anytime you sit before your desktop or laptop.

Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2011

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