Contemplative Outreach
 

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Dear Friends,

Contemplative Outreach was founded 26 years ago to transmit the living tradition of monastic spirituality and the contemplative Christian heritage to those living ordinary lives. Today, as an ecumenical global community of individuals and small faith communities, we annually

  • serve over 40,000 people.
  • support over 120 active contemplative chapters in 39 countries.
  • support over 800 prayer groups, totaling almost 5,000 group members.
  • teach over 15,000 people the practice of Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices through locally-hosted workshops.
  • provide training and resources to local chapters and volunteers.
  • publish and distribute the wisdom teachings of Fr. Thomas Keating and the practices of a contemplative life through books, audio and video media, the Internet, teleconferences, articles, etc.

Contemplative Outreach has served many people during the last 26 years. Still, many remain to serve. As someone who has been touched by the transformative work of Fr. Thomas and Centering Prayer, you know how silence and solitude can nourish, prepare and guide a person to meet the sufferings and challenges of modern-day life. We wish for everyone to know this.

Here's how you can support bringing a vision of embodying Divine Love in the world.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and for the many ways you serve our mission in the world simply by sustaining your Centering Prayer practice. One of my favorite sayings is “that none of us has it all together, but together we have it all,” and this is true in all the gracious ways of generosity. When we give together, we support all of what it takes to keep Contemplative Outreach touching the lives and hearts of seekers worldwide.

Please keep our work in your heart and prayers.

With gratitude for you now and always,
Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler,
President

More than ever I feel your friendship and support and look forward to communion together in the Body of Christ, because whenever you sit down to prayer you’re in communion and union with everyone else, past or even future people who haven’t even been born yet. Everything is now in the mind and heart of God. Let us often go to be refreshed and to be encouraged by each other’s fidelity to the Centering Prayer practice.

Fr. Thomas Keating

Silence Solitude Service