Additional Resources
Support for Your Ongoing Centering Prayer Practice:
living the contemplative life
Downloadable pdf
Information regarding staying connected, centering prayer online, other programs and online courses.
The charts that follow are meant to assist beginning and experienced
practitioners in navigating the published teachings and resources
available in the Contemplative Outreach online bookstore. These are only guidelines; any materials may be ordered by any level of practitioner at any time.
We are 12 Step people who practice Centering
Prayer as our 11th Step and pass it on to others in 12 Step programs. We
offer introductions to Centering Prayer called Teaching Centering
Prayer as an 11th Step Meditation Practice, in a one day format or in a
weekend retreat format. We know from experience that it is helpful to have a community of fellow 12 Steppers practicing Centering Prayer as an 11th Step Practice in order to help nurture and deepen our own commitment to the prayer.
Centering Prayer / A Contemplative Living Community in the Christian Contemplative Tradition, is an unmoderated ecumenical (Christian) mailing list grounded in the Christian contemplative heritage. The list members are committed to the renewal of the contemplative dimension of the gospel through the teaching and practice of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina. We also support and encourage other practices leading to Christian contemplation
The list was founded on March 7, 1994, in honor of Abbot Thomas Keating's birthday. Father Keating is our mentor and friend. His books, tapes, works and teachings are studied and reflected upon on the list.
The list's main purpose is to form a spiritual network that will provide a communal space for Christians to accompany one another in their contemplative journey, attending to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, helping one another to grow in intimacy with God and enfleshing that relationship in their everydayness, seeking "to live their ordinary lives with extraordinary love and utmost charity" (Thomas Keating). We hope to be able to welcome you to our cyberspace community.
To subscribe, please fill out the form at the Centering Prayer Discussion List website. For further information, please send an email to centeringprayer-beginners@yahoogroups.com
For those who have an established centering prayer practice.
The Center-L mailing list is for the discussion of Christian contemplative prayer, with a particular emphasis on the practice of Centering Prayer, which is based on the 14th century English text "The Cloud of Unknowing" and was developed into its present form by Frs. Thomas Keating, William Meninger and M. Basil Pennington at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Discussion of related contemplative practices, such as _Lectio Divina_, hesychastic prayer (e.g. the Jesus Prayer) and so forth, is certainly encouraged. This mailing list will hopefully be a vehicle for creating an Internet-based community of practitioners of Centering Prayer, as well as a method of outreach for those who are interested in getting more information on the subject.
Website of Fr. William Meninger
Practical and enriching resources for the spiritual journey, including e-courses, practice suggestions, movie & book reviews, features on spiritual masters and more.
A non-profit, volunteer, interfaith organization established in 1983 to empower those who minister and serve others in creating new possibilities for themselves and for their communities.
"We are a Cistercian (Trappist) monastic community. Our 900-year-old Cistercian tradition has its roots in the Rule of St. Benedict, which dates back 1500 years. Those traditions which show the strength to transcend time and place are important to us. Yet we view them from our own time and place and fit them into our present lives. "
"You are very welcome to this home of The World Community for Christian Meditation. As a global spiritual community it took form in 1991. But it continues the 30 year long work begun by the Benedictine monk John Main. His legacy is found in his teaching Christian meditation as part of the great work of our time of restoring the contemplation dimension of Christian faith in the life of the church."
Hispano-American Branch of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.
An international nonprofit organization providing resources for living in the gentle power of gratefulness, which restores courage, reconciles relationships, and heals our Earth.
A charitable organization providing food, housing, health care, education, water projects, micro-enterprise development assistance and emergency relief to the poorest of the poor.
Paschal Mystery manifesting in us.
The orientation of Incarnational Contemplation is
towards practicing and living the contemplative life in our ordinary
worlds. Just as everything in our inner world is all in God, so too is
everything in our outer world: the activities, joys, passions and
challenges of existence. |
