Spiritual Renewal with Online Daily Meditations

San Francisco, CA -- Many people long for a moment of relaxed silence and meditation. It’s a luxury we all long for, and we all know we need, yet most of us never take five minutes for a moment to ourselves.

GraceCathedral.org, an online spirituality resource targeting all people, religious or not, has created a Daily Meditation service for people to take time out.

Launched at the beginning of 2002, GraceCathedral,org’s latest audio feature "Daily Meditations from Grace Cathedral" has become the website’s most popular audio offering. It is a daily office of prayers and readings, streamed in stereo over the Internet. Combining spiritual content with the ease of online audio fills a need for many who want to improve their spiritual practice, but are often caught up in the hectic pace of daily life.

Developing an everyday prayer practice has been on the minds of many contemporary seekers. Many people are looking for ways to include the divine in their daily lives. Books that include the daily office have become immediate best sellers and have given lay people a convenient way to develop a prayerful discipline.

With an eye to this developing trend, and the awareness of the growing number of online seekers, GraceCathedral.org created the audio feature Daily Meditations. This program seeks to provide spiritual food in an aesthetically appealing package. These readings are based on the feasts and fasts of the church calendar and include biographical information on the saints whose days are being celebrated. Augmenting this daily program is the soothing sound of Grace Cathedral’s organ, played by Canon Organist and Choirmaster Christopher Putnam. Recorded and engineered at the GraceCom Studio, Daily Meditations is streamed over the Internet and is available to be a part of anyone’s daily spiritual practice.

Across the globe, in Ankara, Turkey, Margaret Pearson eagerly awaits the evolution of streamed prayer online. "I hope the Daily Meditations model will be followed in the future, particularly the prayers for world leaders, the unemployed, the environment, etc." The immediacy of the human voice, the healing words, the intention of inclusion: To paraphrase Francois Truffaut, "Truth at 16.0 KB per second."