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Eight-Day Centering Prayer Retreat
This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a week-long 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 have
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Back to Basics: Exploring the Why, What & How of Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Back to Basics: Exploring the Why, What & How of Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Free contemplative prayer workshop Join to return to the sacred basic tenants of Centering Prayer. “Silence is God’s first language. All others are just poor translations.” — Thomas Keating We’ll explore • Opening to God and peace within • Silence as the universal language of God • How to practice Centering Prayer meditation • Mystical
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Back to Basics: Exploring the Why, What & How of Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Back to Basics: Exploring the Why, What & How of Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Free contemplative prayer workshop Join to return to the sacred basic tenants of Centering Prayer. “Silence is God’s first language. All others are just poor translations.” — Thomas Keating We’ll explore • Opening to God and peace within • Silence as the universal language of God • How to practice Centering Prayer meditation • Mystical
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New Year Silent Saturday
New Year Silent Saturday
Begin the new year by deepening your relationship with God. Join us for a quiet morning of Centering Prayer and silence. The day provides time for private journaling and reflection, communal Centering Prayer, a contemplative walk, and ends with a period of Lectio Divina. All are welcome. A brief introduction to Centering Prayer will be
Back to Basics: Exploring the Why, What & How of Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Back to Basics: Exploring the Why, What & How of Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Free contemplative prayer workshop Join to return to the sacred basic tenants of Centering Prayer. “Silence is God’s first language. All others are just poor translations.” — Thomas Keating We’ll explore • Opening to God and peace within • Silence as the universal language of God • How to practice Centering Prayer meditation • Mystical
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In Silence with Thomas Merton
Introducing a new retreat series with Br. Ephrem Arcement, OHC at Holy Cross Monastery: called "In Silence…" THIS RETREAT IS CURRENTLY FILLED. The hope for each of these retreats is to explore the life and spirituality of a given mystic of the Christian tradition and to begin learning how to put their wisdom into practice.
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An Introduction to a Wisdom Way of Knowing: A Wisdom Practice Series via Zoom
An Introduction to a Wisdom Way of Knowing: A Wisdom Practice Series via Zoom
An Introduction to a Wisdom Way of Knowing: Wisdom Practices Series January 20th This Sacred Path: Three Centered Knowing This Sacred Surrender: Centering Prayer January 27th This Sacred Voice: Chanting This Sacred Body: Gesture & Movement February 3rd This Sacred Self: Witnessing & Welcoming This Sacred Heart: The Way of the Heart This is a
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Practices for Contemplative Living: Logging
Practices for Contemplative Living: Logging
Join a group of Centering Prayer practitioners to support each other on the contemplative path. Modeled after what was formerly known as the 9-month course, the program will be based on Julie Saad’s book, "Contemplative Life: Discovering Our Path to the Heart of God". All are welcome. We meet the 3rd Saturdays of October 2023
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Contemplative Outreach Volunteer Connections – via Zoom
The Chapter Support Team is hosting a Zoom gathering for volunteers serving chapters and local communities. All are welcome. This gathering will take place twice to offer a choice of time for our global community of volunteers. Friday, Jan 26 at 9 PM Eastern Time (UTC-5) OR Saturday, Jan 27 at 11 AM Eastern Time
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BioSpiritual Focusing: Welcoming an Embodied Experience of Grace
BioSpiritual Focusing: Welcoming an Embodied Experience of Grace
Contemplative Enrichment Day with Donna O’Connor and Mike Smoolca Deep wisdom and healing are accessible within us waiting for discovery. BioSpiritual Focusing offers access to the causal point for change, our feelings. We see that a loving and curious presence offered to disregarded and hidden feelings allows deeper meanings to emerge and a graced shift
Introduction to the Welcoming Prayer – via Zoom
Introduction to the Welcoming Prayer – via Zoom
“Martha, Martha, you are worried and anxious about many things … but one thing is needful.” -Luke 10:42 The Mary and Martha story is an example of the focus we can bring to everyday life activities. As the Welcoming Prayer 40-day practice booklet reminds us: “To assist this process, we need complementary practices. Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop
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 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
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Introduction to Centering Prayer
Introduction to Centering Prayer Fostering Intimacy with God through Silence & Stillness Presenter: Sr Ruth Ann Madera Sourced from the depths of Christian contemplative tradition, Centering Prayer has emerged as a life-changing prayer practice for those who embrace it. Centering Prayer is a receptive method of Christian silent prayer that prepares us to receive the
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Lectio Divina Introductory Workshop
Lectio Divina Introductory Workshop
This workshop introduces the method of Lectio Divina, to pray sacred scripture. Through reading, reflecting, responding, and resting in the Word of God, one’s relationship with God is nourished and deepened. Both individual and group experiences will be offered. This program will be offered both in-person and online via Zoom. Information on how to access
An Introduction to Centering Prayer
An Introduction to Centering Prayer
MEET GOD IN A NEW WAY Attend our daylong retreat ... Presented by Benedicte Vibe Christensen and Marjorie Centofanti Let praying without words, in deep silence and openness, draw you closer to God. Come to realize the beauty of holiness in using what modern contemplative Thomas Keating called “God’s first language.” This retreat follows the
Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes – Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounds of the Village – via Zoom
Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes – Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounds of the Village – via Zoom
In Crisis Contemplation, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes will address two entry points into contemplation which have seldom been addressed: contemplation during crisis, and how we contemplate as community. Engaging deeply with both history and current events, Holmes will address the emergence of crisis contemplation, especially through the lenses of BIPOC peoples. Dr Barbara will