The Mercy Center Centering Prayer Wisdom Program presents… The Way of the Heart: A Silent Wisdom Retreat Starts with lunch at 12pm on August 23, ends at 4:30pm on August […]
A Sacred Pause Silent Wisdom Retreat: A Curated Retreat for Contemplatives Under 50
In a society bombarded with the allure of external validation and perpetual striving, we often find ourselves caught in the relentless pursuit of relevance, accomplishment, and fleeting happiness. Yet, amidst […]
A Prayer Shawl: March 8-9, 2024
by Susan Kenney Sacramento, California, USA It is a prayer shawl, created in 23 hours. Each hour new threads are added. Each of different color and texture. Each with its […]
Coloring Outside the Lines by Returning to Elementary Questioning: ‘How Should I Contemplate?’ – via Zoom
Join us, via ZOOM, for a morning with Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher as she guides us in this session with the purpose of deepening and personalizing our own practice, both […]
Core Values of Sts. Francis and Clare: An 8-Day Dual-Track Silent Retreat
Thursday, October 10, 5:00 pm – Friday, October 18, 1:00 pm Shalom Spirituality Center Facilitators: Jeannine Kosman, Kathy Reardon, Kathleen Schiltz, and Mary Jo Pfeifer Wulf This silent Centering Prayer […]
Wisdom School Retreat: Invitation to a Wisdom Way of Knowing
Join us for a rhythm of practice, learning, and integration in togetherness and solitude. The Wisdom stream is at the contemplative headwaters of every religious tradition including Christianity. Wisdom takes […]
Centering Prayer Retreat
God — the source of true joy and lasting peace — is not outside, at a distance from ourselves. God is the very origin of ourselves. Contemplatives of all traditions […]
Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat
This 7 days / 6 night Centering Prayer retreat provides an opportunity to deepen one’s established Centering Prayer practice by building to 4 1/2 hours of prayer time at mid […]
Create Your Life. Write From Your Soul: A Contemplative Writing Retreat
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” — Sue Monk Kidd All of us have […]
Contemplative Living II – ONLINE
I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. – Ezekiel 36:26 “Contemplative life begins when when take the first step into the […]
Weaving a Nest for Stillness: A Silent Contemplative Retreat
This silent, contemplative weekend retreat invites you to engage with the Sacred in nature. Anchored in three Centering Prayer gatherings, the weekend will offer lectio and terra divina (sacred earth), […]
I AM That I AM: The Invitation at the Center of Contemplative Prayer
Contemplative prayer draws us to the center of our being where Silence opens us to God’s dynamic, spacious, ever-evolving reality — the God Who is, not the God we expect. […]
Blue Christmas Service – via Zoom
Blessed are those who mourn … – Matthew 5:4 Sometimes Christmas doesn’t feel so ‘Merry and Bright’, and you just don’t have the energy to ‘Deck the Halls’. This may […]
Practice the Presence Silent Saturday with Fr. Bill Sheehan OMI Zoom Registrations Available
SILENT SATURDAY with Fr. Bill Sheehan, OMI November 11, 2023 Zoom Registration available. 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 pm Pacific Standard Time By this we know that we abide in him […]
9-Day Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat with Frs. Bill Sheehan and Vinny McKiernan
Come rest in the stillness and surrender to God’s presence and action within. This retreat offers an in-depth experience of silent prayer for those who already have an established practice […]
Gathering of Elders II
You are invited to a Gathering of Elders of the Contemplative Outreach community: May 20 to May 24, 2024 Nazareth Retreat Center 1814 Egyptian Way Grand Prairie, Texas 75050 This […]
Benedictine Spirituality – via Zoom
Listening and Responding to God For over 1500 years, Benedictine spirituality, which finds its basis in the monastic Rule of St. Benedict, has assisted seekers from all walks of life […]
Universe Story Shapes Spirituality – via Zoom
Today the on-going development of scientific understandings of the origins of the universe are deeply shaping spirituality. The Universe, or New Story moves us, among other things, from a fall-redemption […]
Brian McLaren: Faith, Doubt and Contemplation: Being Contemplatives in a Dangerous Time – via Zoom
This is a hybrid presentation being conducted both in person at The Center for Contemplative Living in Denver, CO and online via Zoom videoconference. Description of Talk: Institutional religion, much […]
A Contemplative Adventure: Spirituality Encounters Evolution (From Evolution to Quantum Theory) – via Zoom
This is a hybrid presentation being conducted both in person at The Center for Contemplative Living in Denver, CO and Online via Zoom videoconference. It seems that our contemporary world […]
The Universal Christ: An engaging exploration of Richard Rohr’s book – via Zoom
In The Universal Christ – How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe, Richard Rohr examines what it means that Jesus was called Christ, and […]
Welcoming Prayer Introductory Workshop
According to Fr. Thomas Keating, “Welcoming Prayer is the practice that actively lets go of thoughts and feelings that support the false-self system. It embraces painful emotions experienced in the […]
The Power of Story: Exploring Hasidic Tales as a Path to Blessing
Contemplative Enrichment Day of Interfaith Understanding with Rabbi Rami Shapiro Humans are by nature storytellers, and we often become the stories we tell. One of the greatest and most liberating […]
Finding Fullness Through Simplicity
Contemplative Enrichment Day with Mark Kutolowski This day is an opportunity to rediscover simplicity of life as a path to finding fullness and contentment in God. Drawing from his long […]
