Daily Digital Meditation Celebrates Five Years, Renews Invitation to Participate: Sign Up Today!

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Readers of the Mission in Motion blog are likely familiar with an annual post that reflects on the significance of the Daily Digital Meditation (sign up here!). This daily offering, which occurs Monday through Friday at 12:00 p.m. ET and lasts for about 15 minutes, has been a mainstay of SCS Mission and Ministry programming, attracting more than 400 participants since first announced at the beginning of the global pandemic in March 2020. Every now and again, it is important to remind the SCS and now Capitol Campus community of this digital spiritual resource and encourage participation in this life-changing daily practice.

Several prior blog reflections help put the value of the practice into context. Please consider reading:

At its core, this virtual space is intended to give participants a needed reflective pause in the midst of busy lives of work and study. And while the value of in-person engagement remains essential, digital meditation facilitates spiritual opportunities for those in the Georgetown community who are not able to be together physically, whether because their status is fully remote or transit to a particular campus location is impractical. Regardless of the reason, the online nature of this meditation persists as an attraction to participate.

As a mission integrator of the Jesuit spiritual tradition, I find that leading this practice helps me appreciate the diverse ways that Georgetown community members engage in reflective opportunities. Some participants come once in a while and others are present regularly. Regardless of frequency, meditators in the digital practice appreciate that Georgetown is the host for these virtual gatherings. This is especially evident in that the Friday meditation is reserved for an Examen practice modeled on the framework developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola. This Friday gathering tends to draw a larger group and I think this reflects the transformative potential of this core Ignatian practice.

I encourage anyone in our Georgetown community in need of some dedicated mindful quiet to consider signing up. We will continue to make this available, along with other in-person opportunities, to a growing population of spiritual-seeking Hoyas on the Capitol Campus and beyond.