Q: Please advise on the different between Centering Prayer, contemplative prayer and meditation. A: There are many levels of relation with God that can be manifested by the way we […]
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Q: Please help me understand how Centering Prayer and the charismatic or Pentecostal belief in speaking in tongues as a sign on baptism in the Spirit are related? Can they […]
There is just this witness to observe both inside and outside the body-mind. There is this detachment and I am not identified with either. It feels like my mind […]
What happens whenhe ground on which one standsBecomes a mighty chasmAnd earth a distant land? What happens whenThe new found earthIs not outside but inAnd deafened ears and frigid heartAre […]
Q: I read the other day about a study of the prophets in the Old Testament, where one of the conclusions was that in their contact with God, they never […]
[This homily was delivered on March 2, 2013, at the Sunday Eucharist concluding a 4-day Silent Retreat on Contemplative Living with Mary Dwyer in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.] O God, you […]
I am grateful to have been practicing centering prayer for several years now. While in Hawaii with my family last summer, I would practice centering prayer on a hammock then […]
I spent 19 years as a lay-brother at St. Joseph‚Äôs Abbey when Father Thomas was my Abbot. He was a wonderful man who helped me develop my spiritual life. I […]
Q: I’ve been practicing Centering Prayer for a while now, and also sometimes practice Lectio Divina either on its own, or after my Centering Prayer time in the morning, but […]
In May 2011, the Lectio Divina Service Team of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. developed and presented a six-day Lectio Divina Immersion Retreat that focused on the four senses of scripture: literal, […]
