Hello, Boston!

Welcome to our fresh new website!  Isn't it beautiful?  I hope you enjoy the journey through these pages that introduce you to our spiritual center.  I'm so happy to have you checking us out....and happier yet to have this forum through which to reach out to you.  My name is Reverend Mary Francis Drake.  I am one of three Priests serving at the Boston Center of Light in Jamaica Plain.  The Center of Light is a spiritual community that offers classes and services in the Mystical Christian tradition.  You'll get the flavor of our Center and offerings from looking around the site, but I'd like to give you an insiders view in this blog.

 

From the inside out, people come to the Center of Light seeking something of a spiritual nature...something for their soul.  Many people don't  have a clear understanding of what is calling them to seek out a spiritual environment or spiritual life.  What I know is that the soul has a plan of its own...whether it is convenient to the rest of our lives or not!  At present, we have a small but thriving community of people from varying religious and/or spiritual backgrounds, each drawn to come into closer relationship with their Creator and their own heart.

 

When I talk to people about spiritual matters, most have a heart that longs for more love, more acceptance, more compassion and more understanding of life's purpose.  I wonder if that describes your heart?  If so, I am happy to say that you have arrived at a spiritual school that can help you fulfill your heart's desire.  Learning about love from God's perspective is a joyful and simple path and I invite you to step out on it and experience it for yourselves.

 

Mysticism is a spiritual practice based in a personal and intimate experience of God...of the Divine...inside your own being.  Does that sound mystical?  Of course it does....that's why it's called mysticism...you have to feel it to believe it!  Once you do have an experience of the divine love that is both the source and the center of your being, you will be hooked.  This is the only obsession that will satisfy you through and through. 

 

I'm charged with blogging each week and I look forward to sharing my thoughts and musings with you about the beauty of God's creation, the joy of the devotional life, and the peace that comes in knowing God is Good all of the time.

 

Peace to you,

Rev Mary Francis