St. Mary’s Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development welcomes spiritual seekers to the quiet beauty of the South Cumberland Plateau. We are deeply grateful for grant funding that allows […]
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About Prison Outreach Service Team (COPOST)
image: Lawrence Hamilton, Rita Weick and Stephen Cardoza We would like to introduce ourselves. We are the Contemplative Outreach Prison Outreach Service Team, or COPOST. We were founded in 2022. […]
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4-day Centering Prayer Spring Retreat
4-day Centering Prayer Silent Retreat – Spring 2026 April 23-26, 2026 You are invited to join us for the CO of Nebraska spring retreat. Spring is a beautiful time to […]
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9-day Intensive I, Advanced Intensive and Post Intensive Retreat
This retreat offers three tracks simultaneously: Intensive I, Advanced Intensive, and Post Intensive. If this is your first Centering Prayer retreat of this length, we suggest you choose Intensive I. […]
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Aging as a Spiritual Practice
No doubt that aging is an emotional, physical, and psychological experience for many of us as we grow older. The journey is made more complex because our culture does not […]
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5-Day Silent Centering Prayer Post-Intensive Retreat
This retreat will focus on deepening our silence and simplicity and will not include videos or other learning material. Each full day will feature almost four hours of prayer in […]
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How do we “seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God”?
Q:Â Theravada monks from Thailand are marching for peace from Texas to Washington DC. Where are our own spiritual and faith leaders during this [chaotic] time? Where are the members […]
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Praying in Tongues to Avoid Thoughts in Centering Prayer
Q: To avoid ‘thoughts’ during Centering Prayer, I find it helpful to pray in tongues, but I have never heard this mentioned in this connection. St. Paul says: ‘If […]
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Virtual Silent Saturday with Fr. William Sheehan – via Zoom
Virtual Silent Saturday with Fr. William Sheehan Experience the Goodness of Our Life And Being through Our Consents to God Saturday February 21 8:30am-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time Contemplative Outreach of […]
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Centering Prayer Summit via Zoom: “Learning to See in the Dark”
Learning to See in the Dark A 2-day Journey of Opening to Mystical Hope in a Collective Dark Night What if the darkness we face—alone and together—helps us uncover the […]
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