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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 the practice. Two prayer sessions and a question and answer session are included. The human transformation we undergo in Centering Prayer is complex and multifaceted.
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 In this transformational introductory workshop, you will learn the method and principles of the Centering Prayer practice in a quiet, reflective atmosphere. The history, psychology,
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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 weekly, bite-sized videos to deepen your practice and three optional contemplative prayer groups a week, this course can be used to deepen your practice and
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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. Participant's are invited to make a donation. To participate, please pre-register by contacting The Church of Conscious Harmony at 512-347-9673 or by selecting the event
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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 silence and awareness - Opening to God beyond words and concepts Cost: Free Presenter: Keith Kristich, commissioned Centering Prayer presenter and certified mediation teacher See
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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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Two Thomases: Merton and Keating Leading Us to Transformation – via Zoom
Two Thomases: Merton and Keating Leading Us to Transformation – via Zoom
A devotee of both Thomas Merton and Thomas Keating, Maggie Winfrey will share her reflections how these two have guided her spiritual journey simply as an ordinary seeker. A contemplative for over four decades, Maggie Winfrey taught kids to read as well as led adult spiritual enrichment for over 35 years. A commissioned presenter of
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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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Centering Prayer Virtual Workshop
Centering Prayer Virtual Workshop
Centering Prayer Virtual Workshop/Retreat - Creating a Relationship with Your Body and Breath Sat, May 22nd, 9:00 am - 3:00pm Central (Dallas) time, offered by The Church of Conscious Harmony via Zoom. Yoga philosophy teaches to seek relationship with God, we best seek to create relationship with ourselves first. Our body and breath can either
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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) $400 *on-site, $400 online (Learning grant funds available on request.) "Consider that the word Jesus uses, which we have traditionally
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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
