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Contemplative Living II: Daily Life as Prayer – via Zoom
Your life is hidden with Christ in God. - Colossians 3:3 Further enrich your contemplative life and embrace the practice of living each day as a form of prayer. In Contemplative Living I (CL I) the focus is on deepening your interior prayer life, leading to the awareness of God’s presence in all that is.
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Certificate in Contemplative Spiritual Direction
The certificate offering is a 2-year formation and training program for persons who discern a call to the ministry of spiritual direction. Applicants will begin Phase I in July 2025. Certificate in Contemplative Spiritual Direction features: Contemplative spiritual formation as the foundation A 24-month Focused Program with home-based assignments A Cohort Model in a hybrid
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Introduction to Centering Prayer
Sr. Ruth Ann Madera will introduce you and guide you tot the inner silence of Centering Prayer. Centering Prayer is a form Christian contemplative prayer, to center awareness on the presence of God. Please see the link below to register.
4 events,
Love is Love is Love Terra Divina Online Half-Day Welcoming prayer – Centering Prayer: mini-retreat (1st Saturday of every month)
Love is Love is Love Terra Divina Online Half-Day Welcoming prayer – Centering Prayer: mini-retreat (1st Saturday of every month)
Online Half Day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) @ 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 Text) practices
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Centering Prayer and Three-Centered Knowing: A Silent Centering Prayer Wisdom Retreat
“Centering Prayer … is the opening of mind and heart, body and emotions–our whole being–to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond words, thoughts, and emotions.” —Thomas Keating, in Open Mind Open Heart In Centering Prayer we practice letting go to the Divine Indwelling, building up a muscle of release, of consent to the presence and action
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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop – via Zoom
Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop – via Zoom
Are you seeking a path to explore or strengthen your inner connection with God at the centre of your being? Centering Prayer is a practice that leads to contemplation by opening oneself to God’s love, healing, and inner goodness; moreover, it nurtures the soul’s desire to grow in kindness and compassion towards all. The online
4 events,
The Way of Love: An Interspiritual Convergence
Each of the Abrahamic traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—has at its core a commitment to step onto the Path of Love. When we delve deep into our diverse spiritual practices, it shows us hints of our true identity and glimpses into Unity consciousness. This retreat will explore the Way of Love woven through the mystical heart
Centering Prayer Weekend Retreat
An opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina in an atmosphere of silence and solitude within community. The cost of this retreat has been lowered by $100 per participant due to a grant from the Contemplative Outreach Divine Economy Fund. The fund is dedicated to making Fr. Thomas Keating’s teachings in
6 events,
Centering Prayer and the Process of Forgiveness
Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer which deepens our relationship with God, the Indwelling Presence, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. The Process of Forgiveness is a practice that brings before God others whom we need to forgive and those from whom we need to ask forgiveness. The
5 Day Centering Prayer Hybrid Retreat: In-person and via Zoom
This Centering Prayer retreat, led by Fr. Bill Sheehan, OMI, will encourage you to deepen your prayer practice in an atmosphere of silence and solitude within a supportive community of prayer. This deeper level of profound spiritual practice will be aided by several periods of Centering Prayer each day and conferences by Fr. Bill on
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Morning of Prayer Honolulu, Hawaii 3rd Saturdays every Month
Morning of Prayer Honolulu, Hawaii 3rd Saturdays every Month
Morning of Prayer Third Saturdays In Person 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Hawai’i time (UTC -10) Central Union Church • Women’s Building 1660 S. Beretania St. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Let us join together to pause in the presence of the Divine in the sacred silence. An introduction to the method of Centering Prayer is provided. While Centering
6 events,
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Centering Prayer Retreat
This retreat, offered from Tuesday, February 18 till Friday, February 21, 2025, at Holy Cross Monastery on the Hudson River in New York State, offers opportunities for both those new to the Centering Prayer and those who have an established practice. During the retreat, one will experience integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, community
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Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit
Hosted by Pastor Tia Norman, friend of Contemplative Outreach and Centering Prayer Facilitator. On February 22-23, the Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit brings together black spiritual teachers and thought leaders to explore prayer, activism, and community. In the contemplative community, diversity is essential. This summit addresses a critical question that arises in contemplative communities and
Spirituality of the Earth: Thomas Berry’s Wisdom for an Ecological Age – in person and online
Spirituality of the Earth: Thomas Berry’s Wisdom for an Ecological Age – in person and online
Thomas Berry, C.P., arguably the father of “ecological spirituality,” anticipated by decades the contemporary turn toward Earth as the living home of incarnate divinity, exhorting us to awaken to our sacred role within the “New Story” and the “Great Work” in a living community honored and protected as “a communion of subjects, not a collection
3 events,
Contemplative weekend for World Peace (IN SILENCE)
“The contemplative life is an imperative necessity, not only for the religious, but for people in all walks of life, for without contemplation, no person is fully alive, fully free, or fully capable of contributing to a peaceful world.” - Thomas Merton Contemplative prayer and world peace are deeply connected in many spiritual traditions. Centering