Voices of the Community
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Voices of Community
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The article in the January 2018 e-bulletin, “Contemplative Movement” by Robin Gates, affirmed so many experiences that I observed during the first few years of my Centering Prayer practice. I noticed that [...]
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Voices of Community
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Fr. Thomas Keating states that two things happen in the inner room: We get in touch with our basic core of goodness, and the process of divine therapy is initiated [...]
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Voices of Community
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On the western wall of Greystone chapel within Folsom state prison hangs a mural painting. A reconstruction of Leonardo Da Vinci‚Äôs “Last Supper,” painted by a Folsom inmate nearly a [...]
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Voices of Community
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The first words of Jesus reported by Mark are, “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1: [...]
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Voices of Community
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The following is an edited collection of comments generated during several hours of small group discussions at the Contemplative Outreach Conference in Denver September 21-24, 2017. Comments were gathered [...]
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Voices of Community
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You shall love the Lord, your God,with all your heart, with all your soul,and with all your mind.This is the greatest and the first commandment.The second is like it: [...]
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Contemplative Movement
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Voices of Community
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Heaven and Earth converge in our bodies. The body is our teacher. It gives us messages and grounds us in the sacred present. It is the temple of the [...]
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Voices of Community
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Last year, the founders of four contemporary Christian contemplative movements (Fr. Thomas Keating, of Contemplative Outreach; Fr. Laurence Freeman, of the World Community of Christian Meditation; Fr. Richard Rohr, [...]
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Voices of Community
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[Editor's note: Since this invitation was originally sent by the Chicago CO chapter to their mailing list in early October, numerous other tragedies have occurred worldwide, making the message and invitation [...]
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Waking Up and Growing Up
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Voices of Community
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Fr. Thomas has asked the Centering Prayer community to spend the next year going back to basics. For much of the past 12 years I have been revisiting Thomas’ [...]
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Voices of Community
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For many years, the Phoenix Chapter of Contemplative Outreach has partnered with the Trappistine sisters at Santa Rita Abbey to use their retreat facilities for two, eight-day intensive retreats [...]
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Seed of God
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The Holy Spirit works in mysterious ways to build up the Body of Christ, using us in spite of ourselves. Beginning in the mid-eighties, after the death of my mother, I [...]
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Your Table
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Voices of Community
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YOUR TABLE I missed You yesterday….and the week before.The world’s things intervened: a computer snag,no time to have it fixed except on Sunday morning,the week before it was a [...]
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Voices of Community
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Greetings Contemplative Outreach Community, There is a new and powerful movement of the Spirit in our community. We are evolving toward a new level of consciousness – not only as [...]
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Voices of Community
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Contemplative Outreach Dublin has been in existence for 10 years and currently has 11 active volunteers on the team. As autumn approaches it signals the time for preparing for [...]
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Voices of Community
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Fr. Thomas speaks to the different levels of awareness in his chapter on “The Four Consents,” in Invitation to Love: “Each time one consents, one comes closer to transforming union [...]
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Voices of Community
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Is prayer a retreat for you into a separate place where you find rest and peace? If so, why do you not find peace, wholeness and harmony in your [...]
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Voices of Community
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Last year, at the invitation of renowned Cistercian monk Fr. Thomas Keating, four of among the most prominent living western Christian contemplative teachers gathered in Snowmass at St. Benedict’s Monastery. [...]
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Voices of Community
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“God loves me!” Father Tom began our eight-day silent retreat with Pope Francis’ request to Christians to reflect on this, and so we entered into silence at Mount St. Anne’s. [...]
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Voices of Community
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When I lean into the first impressions I had of the meeting with the Board and the Transition Advisory Team in San Antonio this past May 2017, the words that [...]
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Voices of Community
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When I was a junior in high school I took a class on world literature. We read many great novels, such as Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, All Quiet on [...]
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Another Easter . . .
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Voices of Community
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As I read the latest “Voices of the Community” articles from the current Contemplative Outreach e-bulletin, I noticed something I had not seen before . . . one could go [...]
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Voices of Community
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Contemplative Outreach of Chicago recently launched a new program known as Living Wisdom, to give interested members an opportunity to explore “the wisdom tradition.” So far, the program has offered [...]
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In The Silence
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Voices of Community
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A nippy spring morning in May, Harsh winds and arc-like rains Finally subsided, Overdue cleanups, lengthy lawns, Untilled gardens and untold repairs await. 6 weeks ago we celebrated the Paschal [...]
