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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 Intensive Retreats Intensive Retreats provide an opportunity to immerse participants in the practice of Centering Prayer, as taught by Contemplative Outreach. Throughout the retreat experience one becomes more immersed in the conceptual background of the spiritual practice. The Intensive Retreat includes up to three hours of Centering Prayer and a DVD about the This retreat will be offered online using Zoom. Everyone will participate in prayer, videos, and group sessions on Zoom. You may reside at the Mercy Center as an individual retreatant or in your own home or other lodging. Pre-requisite: Prior attendance at an 8-10 day Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat. This retreat offers two tracks simultaneously:
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Presenters: Bob Blair and Pippa Currey Saturday, October 3, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm (Pacific Daylight Time) (Zoom in at 8:50 am) 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 relationships, to God, others, and our world.
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Two-day in-town Centering Prayer Commuter Retreat "Celebrating Life" Led by Fr Carl Arico The Church of Conscious Harmony in Austin, TX. It will take place on Sat from 8:30am to 4:00pm and will continue on Sun from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Retreatants sleep at home and return the next day. Each day will include multiple prayer periods, Lectio Divina, silence and solitude, and faith sharing. Cost
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Imagine you want an electrical outlet underneath your coffee table for a new lamp. To add this outlet, you will have to spend some time under the floor, find a circuit you can tie into, string a new wire, and fasten it to the floor support. Then you will have to cut a hole in
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Anyone with an established Centering Prayer practice is invited to participate in a Centering Prayer Weekend retreat. The retreat serves as a way to go deeper in your prayer practice plus spend time in silence and solitude while in community. Several periods of Centering Prayer each day allows time for rest and walking in the |
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An Introductory Retreat to Nonviolent Communication with Four Practice Sessions Offered on Zoom Unlearning habitual communication patterns, which continually separate you from yourself (self criticism) and others (anger, resentment, loneliness, etc.), opens up space to simultaneously learn new ways of compassionate beingness. Here we shift from profound disconnections towards a higher quality of interconnection in
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Meister Eckhart, the most quoted Christian mystic of our time, actually lived 1260-1327. Surprisingly for medieval times, he was dramatically influenced by women mystics of his time. Though a world-class philosopher and popular preacher, Eckhart shared their passion that people not just believe right ideas about God, but also have a deep, real experience of |
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In this single-evening class, Dr. Reynold Ruslan Feldman, the author of six books on practical wisdom, will help us understand what wisdom is, how we can tap into the aquafer of holy wisdom that lies deep within each of us, and how we can follow its guidance. Using both Centering Prayer and several free-writing exercises,
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This 8 day intensive/post-intensive Centering Prayer retreat at the Trappist Abbey in Oregon begins at 5 pm Friday, May 8 and ends May 15 after breakfast. The cost is $650. For further information or registration contact Patricia Lacy at patricia.a.lacy@gmail.com or 541-207-8895. "Who is The Ultimate Reality? And Who are We?" Presenter: Bonnie Shimizu Friday, October 23 - Sunday, October 25 Offered through Holy Spirit Retreat Center, Encino, CA This weekend retreat will explore the heart of the Christian contemplative journey through the loving gift and legacy of Fr. Thomas Keating. Bonnie will explore the Love that
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St. Mary’s Sewanee invites you to spend time in prayerful silence and contemplation during this day-long Centering Prayer retreat led by the Rev. Tom Ward and Rebecca Paluzzi. This event is modeled on the rhythm of the multi-day retreats that St. Mary’s Sewanee has offered for more than 20 years. In preparing this new retreat
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Half-day Centering Prayer Retreat at The Church of Conscious Harmony in Austin, TX. Registration begins at 8:30 pm and the program begins at 9 am. The morning includes two 30-minute prayer periods, Lectio Divina, several periods of silence and solitude, and faith sharing. There is a suggested love offering of $10. Please pre-register.
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SPONSORED BY CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH OF MARYLAND AND WASHINGTON (COMW) “God is so intimately present to us that the constant awareness of God’s presence is always available to us, if we are open to it. It embraces us, everything in our lives, and all reality at the same time. Being in the presence of God as
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Centering Prayer: Our Practice, Our World Sunday, October 25, 2020 1-4:30 p.m. $20 “The Christian is one who is connected through the heart to the whole of life, attuned to the deeper intelligence of Nature and called forth irresistibly by the Spirit to creatively express one’s gifts in the evolution of self and world.” –
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Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington invites you to join in their special, community Centering Prayer for the U.S. and the whole world on Tuesday, October 27 at 8 p.m. EDT. Our format is simple — an opening prayer, centering for a half-hour, then the Lord’s Prayer. Below is the Zoom coordinate for this simple
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During this class we will examine wisdom as it is found in the Hebrew Scripture known as Wisdom Literature. We will explore what these books offered to the community of Israel, look at how they are reflected in the New Testament and see how they are carried out in our contemplative community. Finally we consider
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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. This will include a live and Zoom option. Presented by: Mike Smoolca
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“One practice to bring the effects of contemplative prayer into daily life is traditionally known as Guard of the Heart. This consists of letting go of every emotional disturbance as it arises and before we start thinking about it. This method is more sophisticated than dismantling the emotional programs for happiness because it deals with
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In the midst of great division and a global pandemic, we all need space to slow down and return to "the way of ease." Join this 1.5 hour workshop over Zoom to explore Centering Prayer as a way of returning to our natural mind and sinking into the simplicity of being. When we rest in
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