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Eight Day Centering Prayer Dual Track Intensive/Post Intensive Retreat
Holy Cross Monastery - New York 1615 Route 9W, West Park, NY, United StatesThe Eight-Day Centering Prayer Dual Track Intensive / Post Intensive Retreat offered from Friday, September 11 – Friday, September 18, 2026, provides an opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of profound silence and community support. The Intensive track will follow the Contemplative Outreach guidelines for an Intensive Retreat including six
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8-day Centering Prayer Intensive and Post-Intensive retreat
Creighton University Retreat Center 16493 Contrail Ave, Griswold, IA, United StatesSouth Dakota and Nebraska Contemplative Outreach invite you to an 8-day Centering Prayer Retreat September 13 -20, 2026 Creighton Retreat Center, located 45 minutes from Omaha, NE near Griswold, IA, is a beautiful location, among the trees with comfortable accommodations, delicious meals, trails, and a labyrinth. The retreat will offer two tracks. If this is
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Contemplative Attitudes
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesThis is an Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat based on the work of David Frenette in his seminal book, The Path of Centering Prayer, hailed by Fr. Thomas Keating as, ‘The best, most comprehensive and most practical book on Centering Prayer.’ David Frenette is a leader and senior teacher in the Centering prayer movement, a longtime
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Introduction to Centering Prayer retreat weekend
Monestary of St. Gertrude 465 Keuterville Road, Cottonwood, IDSt. Benedict frequently unites silence and prayer in the work of seeking God. Centering Prayer is one of several prayer practices that flow out of Benedictine Life. Thomas Merton describes Centering Prayer as “a ‘return to the heart,’ finding one’s deepest center, awakening the profound depths of our being in the presence of God.” The
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Silent Retreat
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd 533 East Main Street, Lexington, KY, United StatesIn a world that never stops talking, give yourself the gift of silence. On Saturday, September 19, 2026, at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, join The Reverend Hendree Harrison and the Contemplative Worship team for a day of contemplative teaching and silence designed for your life. Attend one "movement" or stay for all four. It’s a
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Listen: A 4-day Centering Prayer Retreat
Benet House Retreat Center 2208 88th Avenue W, Rock Island, IL, United StatesCentral Illinois and Mississippi Valley Contemplative Outreach invite you to retreat into silence. We will Center, experience Lectio Divina, and learn insightful methods of listening from Abbot Joseph Boyle of St. Benedict’s Monastery. A minimum of 3 months Centering Prayer practice is required to attend. Please see the link below for more information and to
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Centering Prayer Retreat
Benet House Retreat Center 2208 88th Avenue W, Rock Island, IL, United StatesCentral Illinois and Mississippi Valley Contemplative Outreach invite you to retreat into silence. We will center, experience lectio divina, and learn insightful methods of listening from a video of Abbot Joseph Boyle of St. Benedict’s Monastery. Note: A minimum of 3 months Centering Prayer practice is required to attend. The retreat begins Thursday, October 1
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Presence, Prayer, and Writing From the Heart: A Contemplative Writing Retreat
Genesis Spiritual Life and Conference Center 53 MILL STREET, WESTFIELD, MA, United StatesWe are never closer to our Creator than when we are creating. In writing, we engage in God’s infinite creative impulse to birth the new, the unexpected. Silence and stillness can assist that process by opening a portal to inner depths where we connect to ourselves, to others, to God, and all of creation. All
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Changing with the Fall Colors Half Day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month)
Internet - OnlineOnline Half Day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) May 6 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am UTC-10 FREE First Saturdays online retreats are a special time where we explore our Centering Prayer practice. We are looking forward to sharing Physio-Divina (Moving) practices, Visio-Divina (visual-Art) practices, Terra-Divna (Nature) Lectio-Divina (Sacred
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9-day Intensive I, Advanced Intensive and Post Intensive Retreat
Mercy Center Auburn 535 Sacramento Street, Auburn, CA, United StatesThis retreat offers three tracks simultaneously: Intensive I, Advanced Intensive, and Post Intensive. If this is your first Centering Prayer retreat of this length, we suggest you choose Intensive I. We will be using two prayer rooms with two sets of staff, one for the Intensive retreats and one for the Post Intensive retreat. See
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I Am – The Sacred Doorway into the Aramaic Heart of Jesus
Avondale Presbyterian Church 2821 Park Road, Charlotte, NC, United StatesThe seven "I am" statements in the Gospel of John are a window into who Jesus is and the heart of his teaching. From the perspective of Jesus’ native language of Aramaic, these statements can also reveal who we are – and how we can enter more deeply into Divine Presence through the heart of
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The Practice of Letting Go: The Wisdom of Release in Contemplative Prayer – via Zoom
Internet - OnlineThe Practice of Letting Go: A 90-minute Mini-Retreat The Wisdom of Release in Contemplative Prayer So much of our inner life is shaped by what we hold onto — fixed identities, familiar ways of thinking, inherited beliefs, and the stories we tell about who we are. Contemplative practice invites us to loosen, open, and “let
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