Opening to Interior Silence We’ll Explore: • Opening to the Divine within and all around us • Silence as the universal language of God • The How-Tos of Centering […]
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10-day Contemplative Listening, aka “Post Post” retreat
This is a retreat for those who have attended multiple intensive and post-intensive 8-10 day retreats and find themselves desiring yet longer sessions of Centering Prayer in community. See flyer […]
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Four Day Centering Prayer Retreat
Join us for a time in community for sharing Centering Prayer, the teachings of Thomas Keating, Lectio Divina, the Great Silence and the beauty of the western North Carolina mountains. […]
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An Experience of the Living Flame of Love Within
Q: This is pretty out of sorts for me, but something happened in the past few weeks, and I ended up googling a term that seemed to match the experience: […]
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Settling into Centering Prayer and Working with Thoughts
Q: I am a meditation instructor for health and a secular Carmelite. I have difficulty with the Centering meditation technique and I am asking for help. I have understood […]
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Centering Prayer Silent Weekend Retreat
Nebraska Contemplative Outreach. Weekend Centering Prayer Silent Retreat September 12-14, 2025 at Saint Benedict Center, Schuyler Nebraska Contemplative retreats are one of the most wonderful ways to experience time with […]
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Benedictine Spirituality & Contemplative Prayer: A Timeless Connection – via Zoom
Join Br. Bernard Delcourt, OHC, to explore the roots of Centering Prayer in Benedictine wisdom. Benedictine spirituality cultivates a constant awareness of the Divine in daily life through a continuous […]
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Anam Cara: Thomas Merton, and Pursuing Relationships That Enlighten Our Lives
Though Thomas Merton craved the solitude of a hermitage and the silence in which “God shines there and is immediately found,” his mysticism and writing life were deeply fed and […]
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God in the Cosmos: How Hildegard of Bingen and Teilhard de Chardin Invite Us into the Sacred
In order to expand our vision of God, we explore the lives and spirituality of two extraordinary mystical scientists, Hildegard of Bingen and Teilhard de Chardin. These mystics radically lived […]
Reading the Bible like a Mystic
Can the Bible still be used as a source of spiritual enrichment? Some consider the text as a sexist relic of the past or worse, as something weaponized in service […]
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