![]() These are the loose definitions I’ll hold for this discussion, and if your meanings are different, no worries, just use your own words to substitute for what I have defined as “divine” and “sacred.” After all, I don’t mention these definitions to impose my perspectives, but for the opposite reason - so that you know what I mean, so that you can find your own meaning for what is discussed here. We could say, in a sense, that what we consider sacred is a certain holiness of earthy things and what is divine is the holiness and immutability of invisible forces. Whereas, what is “divine” to me has more connotations with things ethereal, with a non-material influence or presence in our lives. For me, the word sacred has a definite earthiness to it, a sense of being here engaged in some ritual or activity connected with everyday life. Some of you might even consider evil and suffering to be sacred, since the world is full of dark and light. Sacred Space: The Prayer Book has been published annually since 2004 and in Lent and Advent editions since 2007.I imagine that many reading this article consider everything to be sacred. This level of interest led to the publishing of the daily prayers in book format. ![]() ![]() The website is now produced in some twenty-three languages.Īnother indicator of the impact of Sacred Space is that it is one of the top search results returned by Google for the search term “prayer”. Most of this traffic has been engendered by word of mouth. It attracts over five million visits annually. Sacred Space guides users through a self-paced session of prayer centered on a passage of scripture. Since September 2014 Sacred Space is a joint apostolate of the Irish Jesuits and Loyola Press after Irish Jesuit Provincial Tom Layden SJ and Brian Paulson SJ, Provincial of the Chicago Province announced news of their formal agreement to work in partnership together to grow the online prayer site as a fruitful apostolic work. ![]() It was created by two members of the Jesuit order, Alan McGuckian SJ and Peter Scally SJ, and was managed by the Jesuit Communication Centre, and later by a dedicated Sacred Space office, at 36 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Sacred Space is a prayer website which has achieved considerable fame since its foundation in 1999. ![]()
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