• Online Morning Centering Prayer Retreat program: “Ancient Christian Contemplation – Before ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’ “

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    Led by Steve Thompson (CONOVA) Have Christians always practiced contemplation?  During the first 150 years of Christianity, most of those who can be loosely identified as Christian contemplatives were ignored as harmless. By 220 CE, however, contemplatives were generally considered heretics, and they were frequently persecuted and sometimes put to death by their fellow Christians—usually

    $20
  • Spring Silent Saturday

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

    In this season of new life and promise, it is good to take a quiet Spring morning for Centering Prayer and silence. The day is open to beginners as well as those experienced in contemplative prayer or silent meditation. The day provides time for communal prayers, a contemplative walk, private journaling, reflection, and an opportunity

    Free
  • Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat

    Holy Cross Monastery - New York 1615 Route 9W, West Park, NY, United States

    The eight-day Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat, Tuesday, May 16 to Tuesday, May 23, 2023, provides an opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of silence and community support. This retreat follows the Contemplative Outreach guidelines for an Intensive Retreat including six 30-minute Centering Prayer periods daily. Following Fr. Thomas Keating’s guidelines

    $1200
  • Abide in the Mercy

    Mercy Center Burlingame 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA, United States

    The Mercy Center Centering Prayer Program presents: Abide in the Mercy: A Silent Wisdom** and Centering Prayer Retreat "As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love." - John 15:9 In many of Jesus' sayings we can find an invitation to a deeper contemplative way of being, so relevant

    $800
  • Five-Day Centering Prayer Retreat

    St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development 770 St. Mary's Lane, TN, United States

    This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a five day experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community. The retreat offers two tracks. The intensive track is recommended for people who have completed the introductory workshop and who

    $705.00
  • Online Morning Retreat: “By Their Fruits You Will Know Them,” led by Julie Saad

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    “How do you know you are being transformed? Usually, either you or someone else in your life starts to notice that something has changed, something is different in your daily life, how you approach relationships, conflict, work, chores, loss, emotional turmoil. Transformation is about becoming who you are—not your idea of who you are, but

    $20
  • The Ecstasy of God – Contemplative Day of Reflection

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

    Annual Day of Reflection with Fr. Michael K. Holleran How fully, deeply, and consciously do we live the overwhelming dynamism of the Trinitarian Life? Do we recognize it as our own life, and that of the whole universe? Come and explore this vast and vibrant mystery, so central to our faith, in a synthesis inspired

  • 8-Day Intensive and Post-Intensive Retreat

    Benedictine Sisters Retreat Center 916 Convent Road, AL, United States

    Fr. Bill Fickel will be leading this eight-day retreat which provides an opportunity to go deeper into the silence with up to three hours of Centering Prayer a day. All meals are in silence, and most days are spent in what is called "grand silence" when you are asked not to speak at all or

  • Intensive/Post-Intensive Eight-Day Retreat

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

    Enter into a more profound level of spiritual practice in an atmosphere of silence and community. The Eight-Day Intensive and concurrent Post-Intensive Retreat is designed to strengthen one’s discipline and practice of Centering Prayer. The Intensive also provides a conceptual framework for the prayer through the viewing of selected DVDs from Thomas Keating’s Spiritual Journey

    $700
  • Monthly Centering Prayer Day Away Retreat

    St. Francis Springs Prayer Center 477 Grogan Road, Stoneville, NC, United States

    We meet the first Friday of the month at St. Francis Springs Prayer Center, 477 Grogan Rd., Stoneville, NC. The day begins at 9:45 am with 20 minutes Centering Prayer at 10 am led by a volunteer of our Centering Prayer group of 15 regulars. We then break and participants go in silence; they may

    $25.00
  • Prayer Without Ceasing: Contemplation in Work, Body, and Creation

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

    Contemplative Immersion Retreat with Mark Kutolowski ‘Pray without ceasing.’ (I Thessalonians 5:17) How can we experience ceaseless prayer and conscious union of our hearts with God? This retreat will explore the integration of silent contemplation with prayerful engagement with our bodies, creative manual work, and interaction with the natural world. We’ll engage with the Benedictine

  • The Grace in Aging and Centering Prayer

    St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development 770 St. Mary's Lane, TN, United States

    Join us for a one day workshop led by The Rev Tom Ward exploring the “Grace in Aging” and its relation to the Centering Prayer practice. Lunch is included. In

    $40.00