Stories give shape to the human experience and touch us in our innermost places. They pick us up right where we are and leave us somewhere else – changed, transformed, […]
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A Time of Peace and Refreshment – via Zoom
If you need a retreat but can’t get away, join us for this free Centering Prayer online mini-retreat with periods of silent prayer, contemplative breaks and lectio divina. This event […]
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A Science Project or a Poem?
A person is not a science project to be examined, analyzed or dissected. A person cannot be known with the clarity and exactness of a lab experiment. A person […]
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Centering Prayer: Lectio Divina and the Four Senses of Scripture
This praying Holy Scripture retreat offers Centering Prayer periods plus presentations based upon Fr. Thomas Keating’s teachings on the deepening levels of faith: the Four Senses of Scripture – literal, […]
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Embracing – a Retreat at Prairiewoods
A Retreat for the Season leading into Christmas Sponsored by Contemplative Outreach Northeast Iowa Chapter Is it time to embrace – the movement of the Spirit in your life? – […]
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Weekend Silent Centering Prayer Retreat
This in-person retreat is the perfect place for those new to Centering Prayer and silent retreats to begin, as well as for experienced practitioners to have a chance to sit […]
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My Peace I Give You: A Centering Prayer Day with the Aramaic Jesus
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not […]
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9-Day Intensive, Post Intensive Retreat
This retreat offers three tracks simultaneously: Intensive I, Intensive II and Post Intensive. For everyone, there will be 3 sets of two 30 minute periods of Centering Prayer daily. Intensive […]
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Chatting with the Divine Weekend Retreat
Sr. Marie Tasto wrote that practicing lectio divina “is an experience of being shaped by the Word of God and coming into fullness as the word God created us to […]
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Contemplative Living I: Contemplative Practices in Daily Life – via Zoom
I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. – Ezekiel 36:26 “Contemplative life begins when we take the first step into the […]
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