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Re-Entering Community through Silence: Centering Prayer Retreat with Mary Dwyer
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesPresenter: Mary Dwyer Come away to Bethany Retreat Center for a deeper experience of Centering Prayer in community. We will have extended prayer times (3 to 4 hours per day)
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Opening to Our Pre-Existing Union with God
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesPresenter: Keith Kristich So many of us grow up with the message that God is the great, old Guy-in-the-Sky. This God loves the world, but is ultimately separate from it and separate from us. But the great contemplatives say otherwise, that God is the Heart of our hearts and the very Center of our souls.
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Contemplative Spirituality in a Contemporary Time
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesPresenter - Susan Komis What is contemplation? In addition to exploring three stages critical to our spiritual journey relative to prayer and faith in ordinary life, this extended weekend retreat
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Presence, Prayer and Writing from the Heart One-Day Retreat
Wisdom House 229 East Litchfield Road, Litchfield, CT, United StatesAll of us have myriad stories to tell. Some focus on your family history, spiritual journey, experiences in Nature or a life-changing situation. These stories can take many forms but the most compelling are the ones written from the heart, those that touch and move us and sometimes transform both the writer and reader. Writing
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“The Cloud of Unknowing” via Zoom
Internet - OnlineAn anonymous Christian contemplative from the middle ages wrote the classic work The Cloud of Unknowing. Centering Prayer, of course, is based on this seminal work of spiritual practice. The whole of The Cloud of Unknowing is about contemplation. The practice of contemplation goes beyond the mind. It goes into unknowing. The author is insistent
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Guard of the Heart, A Traditional Way to Enrich Your Contemplative Practice via Zoom
Internet - Online"Guard of the Heart … disposes us to let go of personal likes and dislikes and to accept painful situations as they arise." “It deals with the whole of life. It expresses our ongoing intention to be with God in the present moment and sustains it.” - Fr. Thomas Keating as told to Bob Mischke
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Releasing an Enslaved Spirit – A Workshop on Communal Contemplative Spirituality
Internet - OnlinePresented by Very Rev. Michael Battle, Ph.D. Co-sponsored by Contemplative Outreach Chicago and Contemplative Outreach Atlanta 9 AM to Noon Central Time Zone 10 AM to 1 PM Eastern Time Zone Michael Battle points out something we all may have noticed: that events and organizations working to encourage Christian spirituality and contemplative life seem to
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Practical Mysticism: Teachings from Evelyn Underhill – via Zoom
Internet - OnlineA Half-Day Retreat led by the Rt. Rev. G. Porter Taylor “God is the only reality, and we are only real in so far as we are in God’s order
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Six-Day Centering Prayer Retreat: Intensive & Post-Intensive
Claggett Conference Center 3035 Buckeystown Pike, Buckeystown, MD, United StatesThe retreat will provide an opportunity to deepen one’s practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of profound silence and community support. All participants observe silence from the opening to the closing of the retreat. The Intensive and Post Intensive tracks share the same schedule of several hours of group Centering Prayer daily, with one
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Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit
Internet - OnlineHosted 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
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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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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
$175 – $225
