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Personal Days of Retreat & Renewal
You are invited to take a day or days of personal retreat to focus on your “self care.” How are you taking care of yourself spiritually, physically and emotionally? At Bethany Retreat Center we are pleased to offer private retreats in a peaceful and beautiful setting where you can get away from the cares of
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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop
In this introductory workshop, you will learn the ancient method and principles of Centering Prayer practice in a quiet, reflective atmosphere. We will cover the history, psychology, and theology of
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop on Zoom
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop on Zoom
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop on Zoom Holy Family Retreat Center, West Hartford, CT Saturday, May 1, 2021 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) Contemplative Outreach Commissioned Presenter, Nancy Stimac
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Closer Than Breath, Six-Week Centering Prayer Course via Zoom
Closer Than Breath, Six-Week Centering Prayer Course via Zoom
Join the six-week Centering Prayer course to deepen your prayer and meditation. Closer Than Breath focuses on the Divine Indwelling at the heart of Centering Prayer teaching and practice. With
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Centering Prayer Half-Day In-Person or Virtual Retreat
Centering Prayer Half-Day In-Person or Virtual Retreat
Centering Prayer Half-Day Virtual Retreat or On-site Wed, May 5th, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm US Central (Dallas) time, offered by The Church of Conscious Harmony on-site or via Zoom.
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Re-Entering Community through Silence: Centering Prayer Retreat with Mary Dwyer
Presenter: Mary Dwyer Come away to Bethany Retreat Center for a deeper experience of Centering Prayer in community. We will have extended prayer times (3 to 4 hours per day) and input on deepening our Centering Prayer practice. The retreat will be in silence with time for personal reflection and renewal. An already established knowledge
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The Mystical Meaning of Silence via Zoom
The Mystical Meaning of Silence via Zoom
Join this free Centering Prayer workshop and unpack the Mystical Meaning of Silence by exploring - Silence as a path to the Divine Presence within - The mystical approach to
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Facilitating Retreat – Postponed to Spring 2022
Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington: Our May 2021 Facilitating Workshop is now-cancelled and is being rescheduled for Spring 2022. If you are registered for the cancelled workshop and would like a refund or to transfer your registration to the rescheduled workshop, please contact Kathleen Blank Riether at kathblankriether@gmail.com. Contact Marjorie Centofanti at mcentofanti@jhmi.edu with
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Centering Prayer from the Ground of the Heart
Centering Prayer from the Ground of the Heart
Looking afresh at Centering Prayer beginning from utter surrender, we will practice the cues of: be surrender, letting thoughts be as they are, and letting go of thoughts we have
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The Gift of Life: Death & Dying, Life & Living via Zoom – 12-Step Friendly
Covid-19 has caused most of us to experience some type of loss, stress, questions of faith and possibly death of loved ones. Even without Covid-19, there is an almost universal pondering we share about suffering and death. Join us as we explore these common and often "tabooed" subjects in a four-part Zoom meeting series. Four
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God is Love: A Centering Prayer Online Retreat
The God is Love Centering Prayer Online Retreat Thursday, May 20 to Monday, May 24, 2021 This retreat is an opportunity to be in community from the comfort of your home joined with others in a common search around the risen Christ for growth in love. In July 2013, Fr. Thomas Keating sat with Fr.
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Centering Prayer Dual-Track Intensive Post-Intensive Retreat
This is an in-depth retreat for those experienced in Centering Prayer. This retreat will facilitate entrance into a more profound level of spiritual practice in an atmosphere of silence, solitude and community. Those who are experiencing their first 8 day retreat will also view Fr. Thomas Keating's Spiritual Journey course. Those who are attending the
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Recovery Centering Prayer Workshop
Recovery Centering Prayer Workshop
For those practicing a 12-step program, the simple yet powerful method of Centering Prayer opens one to a deeper spiritual awakening. Centering Prayer is a silent prayer practice like meditation that has been used over the centuries. This workshop will help those searching for emotional and spiritual sobriety through the 12-steps of AA, Al-Anon, and
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Living the Beatitudes: Discovering the Mystical Truth of Jesus’ Words
Living the Beatitudes: Discovering the Mystical Truth of Jesus' Words Hybrid retreat: On site at Mercy Center and Online May 27-31, 2021 Begins Thursday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes Monday at 12 p.m. (Pacific Time) $325 (Scholarship funds available on request) "Consider that the word Jesus uses, which we have traditionally translated as ‘kingdom,’ is
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Opening to Our Pre-Existing Union with God
Presenter: Keith Kristich So many of us grow up with the message that God is the great, old Guy-in-the-Sky. This God loves the world, but is ultimately separate from it and separate from us. But the great contemplatives say otherwise, that God is the Heart of our hearts and the very Center of our souls.
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Spiritual and Physical Evolution: In Contemplative Hindsight of 2020
Spiritual and Physical Evolution: In Contemplative Hindsight of 2020
Looking back on the Covid-19 evolution of 2020, we will reflect on our own evolving and devolving during the pandemic. We must encounter the unwanted to be able to recognize the wanted in times of change. How have we changed physically? How have we grown spiritually? What brought out the best in us? What brought
