Heaven and Earth converge in our bodies. The body is our teacher. It gives us messages and grounds us in the sacred present. It is the temple of the […]
Centering Prayer and the Transformation of Suffering
Q: I’ve been a Centering Prayer practitioner for several years and I’ve just finished reading The Better Part – Stages of Contemplative Living by Fr. Keating. I think that I’ve been going […]
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Back to Basics
Q: I heard at the CO September 2017 conference that Fr. Thomas is emphasizing a return to the basics. What does this mean in your view? A: Thomas is […]
A Contemplative Prayer Gathering In the Midst of Tragedy
[Editor's note: Since this invitation was originally sent by the Chicago CO chapter to their mailing list in early October, numerous other tragedies have occurred worldwide, making the message and invitation […]
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The Difference Between Centering Prayer and Dom John Main’s Christian Meditation
Q: I'm a longtime meditator and student of contemplative practice traditions. As such I have maintained an interest in and appreciation of modern Christian approaches to meditation. In regard […]
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Waking Up and Growing Up
Fr. Thomas has asked the Centering Prayer community to spend the next year going back to basics. For much of the past 12 years I have been revisiting Thomas‚Äô […]
How to Create a Weekly Intensive Retreat Experience: “The Mini Midweek Retreat”
For many years, the Phoenix Chapter of Contemplative Outreach has partnered with the Trappistine sisters at Santa Rita Abbey to use their retreat facilities for two, eight-day intensive retreats […]
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My Experience of the Contemplative Gathering in Snowmass
Last year, the founders of four contemporary Christian contemplative movements (Fr. Thomas Keating, of Contemplative Outreach; Fr. Laurence Freeman, of the World Community of Christian Meditation; Fr. Richard Rohr, […]
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Seed of God
The Holy Spirit works in mysterious ways to build up the Body of Christ, using us in spite of ourselves. Beginning in the mid-eighties, after the death of my mother, I […]
Your Table
YOUR TABLE I missed You yesterday‚Ķ.and the week before.The world‚Äôs things intervened: a computer snag,no time to have it fixed except on Sunday morning,the week before it was a […]
