• Retreat to Learn & Pray the Centering Prayer Way

    Journey Center Santa Rosa 1601 4th St #A, Santa Rosa, CA, United States

    Will you join us in this one-day retreat cultivating a contemplative prayer life as we study, practice, and share “The Method of Centering Prayer - The Prayer of Consent”? Gregory

    $45
  • Heart Speaks to Heart: Correspondence as Spiritual Practice

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Contemplative Enrichment Day with Judith Valente and Brother Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O. Through the ages, correspondence has been an important contemplative practice to recognize and share the presence of God in our lives. Thomas Merton considered his nearly 20,000 letters as an "apostolate of friendship." We’ll look at how Merton's most engaging letters inspired a years-long

  • Advent Centering Prayer Weekend

    Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United States

    "Bridges to Contemplative Living" leads participants on a journey toward personal spiritual transformation and a more contemplative and peace-filled life. This retreat is designed for those with an established daily

    $258
  • Lectio Divina Advent Experience

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Bring the experience of contemplative prayer into your Advent season! Review and practice the method of Lectio Divina for praying sacred Scripture. Through reading, reflecting, responding and resting in the Word of God, we nourish and deepen our relationship with God. In addition to using Scripture, we’ll apply Lectio-inspired methods to images (Visio Divina), music,

  • Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop

    Holy Spirit Retreat Center 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, United States

    Contemplative prayer is God's personal and unique gift to each of us. If we are open to this gift, it will profoundly affect our lives and relationship with God, others, and our world. Centering Prayer is a form of contemplative prayer. It is a method of prayer that opens us to interior transformation and deeper

    $40
  • The Contemplative Spirituality of Icons and Iconography

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Contemplative Enrichment Day with Marek Czarnecki Icons in the Orthodox Christian tradition have been used as visual theology and as windows into the spiritual world. Through sacred imagery, the Holy Spirit speaks to the believer, revealing deep truths that may not be evident in other ways, leading the believer into the depths of prayer and

  • Introduction to Centering Prayer Workshop

    St. Mary's Episcopal Church, High Point, NC 108 W. Farriss Ave., High Point, NC, United States

    Be still and know that I am God. - Psalm 46:10 "Centering Prayer is a discipline to foster interior transformation, initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One’s way of seeing reality changes, which empowers one to perceive and respond to everyday life with sensitivity to the dive presence in, through

    $30.00
  • Carolyn Goddard’s “Reflection on Discernment” – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Using gardening as a metaphor, this workshop will look at the process of discernment in terms of tilling the soil of one’s soul, planting a seed for discernment and watching for sunlit growth. The session will begin with Centering Prayer, and there will also be time for individual reflection as well as questions during the

  • Body Presence and Contemplative Awareness – BioSpiritual Focusing Day of Presence

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Contemplative Enrichment Day with Donna O’Connor and Mike Smoolca Discover a deeper awareness of healing and wisdom accessible to each of us through our bodies. We’ll establish BioSpiritual Focusing’s place in Body Awareness Practice and then progressively and experientially introduce participants to the focusing concepts which will conclude with individual experiences of being companioned through

  • Introduction to Centering Prayer – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Two Session Event: February 27th and 28th, 2023 from 6 PM to 8 PM (Central) each day. The Introduction to Centering Prayer explores the place of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition. As Jesus said, “But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father

  • The Being You Are is the Being I AM

    Internet - Online

    We all have stories about who we are based on our history, relationships, the roles we play in life, our personality, race, gender and identity at large. This is who we think we are. But beyond this storied self is our True Self -- the vast, pure awareness known as the Divine Indwelling, or I

    $15