About Prison Outreach Service Team (COPOST)
image: Lawrence Hamilton, Rita Weick and Stephen Cardoza We would like to introduce ourselves. We are the Contemplative Outreach Prison Outreach Service Team, or COPOST. We were founded in 2022. […]
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How do we “seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God”?
Q: Theravada monks from Thailand are marching for peace from Texas to Washington DC. Where are our own spiritual and faith leaders during this [chaotic] time? Where are the members […]
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Praying in Tongues to Avoid Thoughts in Centering Prayer
Q: To avoid ‘thoughts’ during Centering Prayer, I find it helpful to pray in tongues, but I have never heard this mentioned in this connection. St. Paul says: ‘If […]
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Centering Prayer and the Noting Technique of Mindfulness
Q: I’m a Catholic and I am most interested in developing my relationship with God through contemplation. I have become acquainted with Centering Prayer but I am also practicing […]
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Seeing with the Eye of the Heart: The Practice of Visio Divina
By Ingrid Forsberg St. Paul, Minnesota (reprinted with permission from Ingrid and Contemplative Outreach of Chicago) “Within my darkest times, you kindled an awakening in me” -Taizé Community In […]
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Is Centering Prayer Just for Christians?
Q: I thought Centering Prayer was just for Christians. When reviewing your website, it seems that Buddhist, Sufi and others can use it to get close to God. But isn’t […]
Letters from Thomas Keating
Note: To improve the contents of the Thomas Keating archive at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the Contemplative Outreach global community has been encouraged to send in any personal […]
Zen in a Christian Monastery – Fertile Ground, Open Mind
By Ron Barnett, Ph.D. Germantown, Maryland, USA What did Fr. Thomas Keating learn from Zen? My contemplative teacher, Fr. Thomas Keating (1923-2018), learned from many sources – Indigenous American […]
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Telephone Conversations between Thomas Keating and Isabel Castellanos, April 7, 2015 – October 31, 2018
The following is a collection of some of the notes I took after speaking with Father Thomas on the phone during the last three years of his life. They […]
Centering Prayer and Use of White Noise
Q: I have practiced Centering Prayer in the past to good effect, but then years ago I had heart surgery and got a mechanical aortic valve. Staying alive as […]
