Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Carmen Acevedo Butcher
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Everything Belongs, Read by Carmen
Everything Belongs references the Center for Action and Contemplation podcast and explores life's imperfection and impermanence as a meaning-making journey with others, in community.
You can read it here: carmenbutcher.com/blog/?p=1421
Thanks to these communities for conversations:
Center for Action and Contemplation and Everything Belongs: cac.org/podcast/everything-belongs-podcast/
Listen: tinyurl.com/050124CAC
Transcript: tinyurl.com/S1E9EBCAC
Abbey of the Arts: abbeyofthearts.com/lift-every-voice/practice-of-the-presence-a-revolutionary-translation-by-carmen-acevedo-butcher/
Theosophical Society: ruclips.net/user/TheosophicalSociety
Contemplative Outreach: ruclips.net/video/ZYZoW2XlYp8/вид...
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Видео

Sailing through This to That, Read by Carmen / Introduction, The Blue Mountain Review Dec 2023 issue
Просмотров 828 месяцев назад
Sailing through This to That is the Introduction for The Blue Mountain Review December 2023 issue. This piece is about living the new year 2024 in the liminal space of open kindness, which poet Lucille Clifton calls "innocence." You can read it here: issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewdecember2023 Thanks to the Editor-in-Chief Clifford Brooks for the invitation to write the Introd...
Georgia of Santa Fe & Julian of Norwich: Love as Reseeing read by Carmen
Просмотров 999 месяцев назад
Georgia of Santa Fe & Julian of Norwich: Love as Reseeing is a blog piece. It's about the gifts of wisdom from Georgia O'Keeffe and Julian of Norwich, how living with their sage ideas, works, and words and returning to these, reseeing them, can bring us peace and purpose during a time of war, genocide, widespread hunger, suffering, unraveling civility, uncertainty, and loneliness. You can read ...
Boats read by Carmen
Просмотров 5210 месяцев назад
Boats is a blog piece. It's about the gift of time and finding Presence in nature and in community, during a time of deep injury and loneliness. You can read the blog here: carmenbutcher.com/blog/?m=202310 Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an award-winning translator of spiritual classics and a contemplator who has respect for all faith traditions, all wisdom traditions, and those paths of kindness tha...
Unmediated Life read by Carmen
Просмотров 7311 месяцев назад
Unmediated Life is a blog piece. It's about being alive. You can read the blog here: carmenbutcher.com/blog/?p=1317 Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an award-winning translator of spiritual classics and a contemplator who has respect for all faith traditions, all wisdom traditions, and those paths of kindness that people follow that have names beyond these categories. She translated the Cloud of Unkno...
Be Still Chant by Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Просмотров 126Год назад
Be Still is a meditative chant. It's just over 2 minutes. You are invited to join in. Several birds flew by as this chant was sung, winging their way across the calm water of the strait. The outro is bird song. The video shows the marsh where Carmen walks. Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an award-winning translator of spiritual classics and a contemplator who has respect for all faith traditions, all...
Cædmon’s Song by Carmen
Просмотров 22Год назад
Singing Original Blessing, Inspired by Cædmon’s Hymn, as Translated by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, a hymn 13 centuries young, and still relevant today. First, welcome to all new subscribers! Happy you're here! Blessings, CAB Carmen titles this singing: Cædmon’s Song Now let’s praise nature’s Maker, Mystery’s might and wise mindfulness, every work of our Ancestor who woke wonder, our truest Friend, ...
Come to Me Chant Sung by Carmen
Просмотров 89Год назад
Carmen sings Matthew 11:28-30 and comments briefly on it. The words are from a passage that she loves. Carmen has drawn it, diagrammed it, read and reflected on it during walks, put it on a 3x5 card and taken it with her in her back pocket while running errands, and then decades on of doing these activities, as Carmen lived with these words, a melody emerged, which she sings here. “Come to me, ...
The Welcoming Prayer Practice Created by Mary Mrozowski
Просмотров 958Год назад
The Welcoming Prayer Practice created by Mary Mrozowski is a good sitting or “as-you-go” exercise. It was influenced by her training in biofeedback, Thomas Keating’s teachings on the False/True Self, and Jean Pierre de Caussade's Abandonment to Divine Providence. Here are some of the points discussed by Carmen in this brief video: 1/ Focus. Feel. Sink. Hearth. Touch. Drop in. Scan body. Become ...
Gratitude Song
Просмотров 92Год назад
Carmen sings the Gratitude Chant and comments briefly on it. The words are from some Buddhist koans she loves. One of her best friends introduced her to them. As Carmen lived with them, a melody emerged. "I am gratitude. I am gratitude. The present moment is my true self, and I am whole right now. I am here. I am here. I am gratitude." Carmen is the award-winning translator of this 14th-century...
Presence Practice: Unknow with Brother Lawrence & the Cloud | Mystic Summit | Closer Than Breath
Просмотров 977Год назад
This interview is part of the Mystic Summit hosted by Closer Than Breath. Keith Kristich asks acclaimed poet, translator, and educator Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, about her contemplative experiences and award-winning translation work. Carmen has provided us with the only complete translation of Brother Lawrence: Practice of the Presence: a Revolutionary Translation, which Martin Laird calls "t...
The Nod | a blog on everyday kindness
Просмотров 64Год назад
Carmen's May blog is a reflection on allowing ourselves fallow times, how important they are, and on how we can have more kindness in our lives, right now, in small, important, everyday ways. This blog is named "The Nod" after Carmen's experience at the grocery store. It's a blog on enjoying mindfulness and kindness in our ordinary daily activities, feeding our souls and resetting our thoughts ...
Lectio Divina 6-Minute Meditation with Carmen
Просмотров 112Год назад
Carmen is in the marsh watching (as you will see) the birds fly into view and a large container ship sail forward slowly as she reflects in 6 minutes on lectio divina, inviting you to join her in contemplating the ancient steeping in wise words as a form of self-nourishment, as much needed soul food in a day of doom scrolling and headlines filled with cruelty and suffering. Her meditation is al...
Cloud Singing and Kindness by Carmen
Просмотров 59Год назад
Carmen sings, in Modern English and Middle English, in songs she created, the Prayer for the Preface to the Cloud of Unknowing. Carmen is the award-winning translator of this 14th-century spiritual classic on praying without ceasing, by Anonymous. She has also given us the only complete translation of Brother Lawrence, called "the new standard" by reviewers: Practice of the Presence: a Revoluti...
Contemplation: A Meditation, Read by Carmen
Просмотров 278Год назад
Carmen's meditation on contemplation references real life, the books she's translated like the award-winning Cloud of Unknowing and Book of Privy Counsel, and the only complete translation of Brother Lawrence, called Practice of the Presence: a Revolutionary Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, which reviewers are calling "the new standard." You're invited to listen in! To read the blog as yo...
Faillir: On Mindfulness & Lectio, Read by Carmen
Просмотров 89Год назад
Faillir: On Mindfulness & Lectio, Read by Carmen
bird songs & e. e. cummings
Просмотров 72Год назад
bird songs & e. e. cummings
CÆDMON’S HYMN Sung by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, from her Blog
Просмотров 249Год назад
CÆDMON’S HYMN Sung by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, from her Blog
HIDE-AND-SEEK DIVINITY Read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher | Blog
Просмотров 196Год назад
HIDE-AND-SEEK DIVINITY Read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher | Blog
ACEVEDO BUTCHER read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher | Blog
Просмотров 81Год назад
ACEVEDO BUTCHER read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher | Blog
You do not have to be good, sung by Carmen, with geese, and Mary Oliver
Просмотров 160Год назад
You do not have to be good, sung by Carmen, with geese, and Mary Oliver
ASK YOUR PROFESSOR with Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD
Просмотров 93Год назад
ASK YOUR PROFESSOR with Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD
MEDICINE BUDDHA CHANT / 2-Min Companion Video to 5-Min "Chant: We Could Sing More, Read by Carmen"
Просмотров 102Год назад
MEDICINE BUDDHA CHANT / 2-Min Companion Video to 5-Min "Chant: We Could Sing More, Read by Carmen"
CHANT read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher | Blog
Просмотров 92Год назад
CHANT read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher | Blog
54-Second Halloween Special of Grendel Entering Heorot, Said by Carmen
Просмотров 69Год назад
54-Second Halloween Special of Grendel Entering Heorot, Said by Carmen
Practice of the Presence / Translator's Note, Read by Carmen
Просмотров 191Год назад
Practice of the Presence / Translator's Note, Read by Carmen
James Finley Interview with Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Просмотров 11 тыс.Год назад
James Finley Interview with Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Sermon on the Mount Prayer in Old English and Modern, translated and read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Просмотров 130Год назад
Sermon on the Mount Prayer in Old English and Modern, translated and read by Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Practice of the Presence / Introduction, Part 6 of 6, Read by Carmen
Просмотров 113Год назад
Practice of the Presence / Introduction, Part 6 of 6, Read by Carmen
There's a Pair of Us! with Carmen, 2 Flying Seagulls, and Emily
Просмотров 43Год назад
There's a Pair of Us! with Carmen, 2 Flying Seagulls, and Emily

Комментарии

  • @donnaanderson5529
    @donnaanderson5529 2 месяца назад

    I loved this Sis! Just discovered I could subscribe to you on RUclips . So inspiring and encouraging! Blessings🕊️🥰

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 2 месяца назад

    Oh how I wish I’d know about your visit to Houston. I am a somewhat new fan and discovered this just now. I hope you will be invited back. I live in Houston and it will be a great pleasure to meet you. Sincerely, Joan Son

  • @Aislinsweetdreams
    @Aislinsweetdreams 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 5 месяцев назад

    This is so deeply helpful, every time I listen. Thank you for revealing these truths in such a gentle way. With Love❤

  • @wilfredobenitez7275
    @wilfredobenitez7275 7 месяцев назад

    One of the deepest interviews I’ve listened to with Dr. James Finley on trauma. What a gift to listen to this as a navigate the scars of trauma in my own life, and seek my own “disappearance into God’s face.” Thank you Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher for this deeply penetrating, and intimate interview. 🙏🏽

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 8 месяцев назад

    Makes me think of the words on the Statue of Liberty. Thank you for this calm in my day.

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you for your enlightening and kind works and your wishes for me and mine in this new year. May you live the same blessings in your own. Very sincerely, Joan in Texas

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 9 месяцев назад

    Once again a reading from you to strengthen my soul. This grounds my very full day and I thank you.

  • @jenniferkearney5134
    @jenniferkearney5134 9 месяцев назад

    Thank you! I had been thinking more practical wisdom would be quite welcome on how you made the transition from your earlier life to now, and this is a real gift.

  • @clayden1951
    @clayden1951 9 месяцев назад

    Thank you for your uplifting sharing. May your words return to your heart too...

  • @grownknow6857
    @grownknow6857 10 месяцев назад

    Wow, that was amazing. I felt like you were my best friend saying exactly what my soul needed to hear. I've always been in spiritual circles and struggled with the urge and seeming instructions to get rid of anxiety and fear. It's been a long journey to simply accept my emotions in the moment. Thank you. I consider you a spiritual teacher to me.

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 10 месяцев назад

    Brilliant. Your words give me words… and focus. Thank you dear one.

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you, Joan. Your kind words made my morning brighter (it's a sunny day outside, too).

  • @grownknow6857
    @grownknow6857 11 месяцев назад

    Walking by a library bookstore a few years ago I saw the cloud of unknowing and a voice told me to get it. I wasn't big on Christianity. But the moment I read the first words I felt, more than any book I had ever read, the author was talking directly to me. What a gift, a friend, an encouragement and a guide! Following Carmen Butcher has allowed me to learn about this guy and the contemplative tradition. I feel found.

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence 11 месяцев назад

      Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. I relate. The Cloud pulled me to it too. Your kind message encourages me.

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 11 месяцев назад

    The unmediated life, the nod and others a blessing to me. Your comforting voice, the simple message beautifully explained and a portal to sanity. I thank you again dear Carmen. With gratitude (again) from Joan in Texas🦋

  • @joanson23
    @joanson23 11 месяцев назад

    Your words are deeply comforting as I contemplate my peaceful center, even though stumbles abound. Thank you for posting your careful wisdom as I learn to navigate my own. Please continue❤

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence 11 месяцев назад

      Dear Joan, your kind words encourage me. Thank you for them and for your faithfulness to this peaceful center-navigation and for sharing your kindness here. With gratitude, Carmen

  • @jeffpatrick2537
    @jeffpatrick2537 11 месяцев назад

    Interesting how God works with everyone

  • @cherylmburton5577
    @cherylmburton5577 Год назад

    Sounds like the way Thomas Merton and James Finley describe God finding Himself in us rather than our finding ourselves in God!!!!!

  • @RM-nm4bn
    @RM-nm4bn Год назад

    Rest this mind

  • @RM-nm4bn
    @RM-nm4bn Год назад

    Rest

  • @cherylmburton5577
    @cherylmburton5577 Год назад

    Thanks, Carmen, this was appreciated. Very helpful for persons with anxiety to hear the transference of your calmness😊

  • @blargsmarg7784
    @blargsmarg7784 Год назад

    Pleasure to hear you again Carmen, my friend. It might be interesting for you to know the word for education and literacy "sawad" in Arabic or the Farsi pronunciation of it "savad" in Farsi also means blackness and darkness, which many mystics warn against taking pride in it.

  • @cynthiaschorr553
    @cynthiaschorr553 Год назад

    That is exactly what you are Dr. Finley “A healing presence in midst of this world”. And bless you, for all you endured thru childhood to BE as you are; an authentic treasure of the very best sort. My old preconceived notions & concepts of God and how he does His work within us & without (like “He protects us from nothing”) is a shock to my mere (68year old) system of reasoning. Yet, at same while, this new-to-me awareness I’ve come to crave. Finding my practice through you, David Maginley, Father Rohr, THANK YOU to all of you. And to you, Carmen for making this “program” available, which is like getting directions toward the pathway. You are a grace yourself. Love you all, Cynthia❤

  • @wbabdij
    @wbabdij Год назад

    Beautiful meditation, yes, contemplation is community

  • @soniahazy4880
    @soniahazy4880 Год назад

    💎🤩✨

  • @gabriellecheung578
    @gabriellecheung578 Год назад

    Thank you 🙏

  • @gabriellecheung578
    @gabriellecheung578 Год назад

    Thank you. Is a full audio book available?

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence Год назад

      Hi Gabrielle, yes, there is a full audio book, and it's read beautifully by Joana Garcia. Here's one place to find it (I made a bitly customized link for you): bit.ly/audiblepresencebook Hope you enjoy it!

  • @cherylmburton5577
    @cherylmburton5577 Год назад

    Very nice, Thank you Carmen! I did not need to understand the olde English to appreciate and sense the Spiritual. I did not hear the Sump pump, but I guess I did not need to hear that either. I would rather end my night with the lovely modern version. I presume the Bede you are referring to is Catholic Venerable Bede?

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence Год назад

      Yes, you're right! Thank you for your kind words, which I'm just now seeing. You and your kindness are much appreciated!

  • @RM-nm4bn
    @RM-nm4bn Год назад

    I sang it with you. So lovely. Regards Rob.🙏

  • @RM-nm4bn
    @RM-nm4bn Год назад

    So beautiful thank you

  • @maxhammertruth
    @maxhammertruth Год назад

    James Finley = Sincerity.

  • @federicoramirez8175
    @federicoramirez8175 Год назад

    Thank you Carmen! God bless you!

  • @thefaith-ingproject6521
    @thefaith-ingproject6521 Год назад

    There is so very much beautiful here. So many thanks. One of the thingsthat really sticks with me is the idea that we live beneath, through, and with the meaning of our name. It's a sort of karma, our names, perhaps.

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence Год назад

      Thank you for your kind comment and good observation that is a reminder back to me this morning! Peace, Carmen

  • @ashleyterrell1549
    @ashleyterrell1549 Год назад

    Love James Finley. ❤

  • @parsons4God
    @parsons4God Год назад

    My Dude. Love you James

  • @Anna-jg5br
    @Anna-jg5br Год назад

    Thank you for this wonderful interview! James is so humble, so full of wisdom and love - these qualities shine forth from him. Thank you also for signposting us to his other podcasts and writings so we can continue to learn and develop our spiritual practice

  • @mikeconway169
    @mikeconway169 Год назад

    Brilliant Carmen! Thank You

  • @kevinjackson28
    @kevinjackson28 Год назад

    Carmen, That was lovely. So lovely. Love Beowulf and oh that Old English. Amazing treat for 🎃 👻, thank you so much!

  • @sokawk
    @sokawk Год назад

    Always love your renderings Dr. Carmen! Was the 'our mother, our parents' in the original? I feel like I'm reading it in the Old English (only I don't read Old English and have only worked with text from Greek). That is quite stunning!

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence Год назад

      Hi James! Thank you! Good question. I explain it in long form here if you’re interested one day: ruclips.net/video/zWGShg-CABA/видео.html

  • @gdpope52
    @gdpope52 Год назад

    Unique, beautiful…

  • @sokawk
    @sokawk Год назад

    Wow, Carmen! Sooo Love this!

  • @janetballard9543
    @janetballard9543 Год назад

    Love the live readings! Thank you❣️

  • @gdpope52
    @gdpope52 2 года назад

    Deep sigh…. Listening to settle my mind.

  • @paulettemeiermusic5064
    @paulettemeiermusic5064 2 года назад

    This is so beautiful, Carmen!! Glad I discovered your you-tube channel! : )

  • @johndavies9940
    @johndavies9940 2 года назад

    Wonderful overture... thank you ..x

  • @marsha123ist
    @marsha123ist 2 года назад

    Thank you 🙏

  • @aquietgarden
    @aquietgarden 2 года назад

    This was so wonderful to hear! 🤍🙏🏼🕊

  • @WasteOfValuableTime
    @WasteOfValuableTime 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing your story and the book.

  • @marsha123ist
    @marsha123ist 2 года назад

    Cont’d…it was from the interview regarding Brother Lawrence. Thank you 🙏

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence 2 года назад

      I recorded it for you, Marsha: ruclips.net/video/ErZdvEpDMW0/видео.html&ab_channel=CarmenAcevedoButcher Hope you enjoy it! Peace, Carmen

  • @marsha123ist
    @marsha123ist 2 года назад

    Your song is so lovely. Also, the song you sang on Amy Frykholm’s blog for the Christian Century is exquisite. Is there anyway you can make that available for us to listen to

    • @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence
      @CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence 2 года назад

      Thank you, Marsha. Your kind words are encouraging to me. I believe it was Cædmon's Hymn (a kind friend helped me dig that up). I'll record it soon-ish and post it here. Thank you for your interest! Peace to you, Carmen

  • @dafost3r
    @dafost3r 2 года назад

    Middle English is so beautiful. Thank you also for your translation