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Contemplative Living I: Contemplative Practices in Daily Life – via Zoom
Internet - OnlineThis four-month long online course is experiential, guiding participants to deepen their experience of the abiding presence of God by cultivating their contemplative capacities. Participants will learn and integrate contemplative spiritual practices into daily life within a community of seekers through monthly meetings, a weekly online prayer chapel, personal practices, and monthly Holy Listening Circles
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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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Unknowable – Surrendering Faithfully to Wonder (via Zoom)
Internet - OnlinePresented by Rick Klein Might our many societal, cultural and world problems be viewed as a crises of faith? In this thought-provoking presentation, Rick Klein offers insight into an often unseen dilemma that lies at the heart of many of today’s dualistic sociopolitical issues: The decline of faith and the rise of beliefs. Through
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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop (in-person and online)
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesIn this introductory workshop, you will learn the method and principles of Centering Prayer practice in a quiet, reflective atmosphere. Along with the method of Centering Prayer, we will cover the history, psychology, and theology of the practice. Two prayer sessions and a question-and-answer session are included. This program will be offered both in-person and
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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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Centering Prayer Essentials: 3-Day Course – via Zoom
Internet - OnlineFree, 3 day online course exploring the "why, what, and how" of Centering Prayer. We'll Explore: • Opening to the Divine within and all around us • Divine therapy
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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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For the Beauty of the Earth: Sculpture as Prayer; Beauty, the Apophatic and Hope (in-person and online)
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesThis event, with its conferences on beauty, the apophatic, and hope, will explore the nature of beauty as a revealed gift, the apophatic as negation leading to presence, and hope as embodying unity and solidarity. The sculptures from his current show at the Monastery Gallery will be integral to his conferences, and the day will
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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop (online via Zoom)
Internet - OnlineJoin us for a time of reflection and silence in this presentation of a contemporary form of silent prayer that traces its origin to ancient Christian tradition. The discipline of Centering Prayer is presented as silent communion with God beyond concepts, words and images. The workshop will cover the roots of the prayer, the theological
Free – $30
