[This homily was delivered on March 2, 2013, at the Sunday Eucharist concluding a 4-day Silent Retreat on Contemplative Living with Mary Dwyer in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.] O God, you […]
Snorkeling in God
I am grateful to have been practicing centering prayer for several years now. While in Hawaii with my family last summer, I would practice centering prayer on a hammock then […]
Silence
I spent 19 years as a lay-brother at St. Joseph‚Äôs Abbey when Father Thomas was my Abbot. He was a wonderful man who helped me develop my spiritual life. I […]
A State of Contemplation?
Q: I’ve been practicing Centering Prayer for a while now, and also sometimes practice Lectio Divina either on its own, or after my Centering Prayer time in the morning, but […]
Praying the Scriptures in Solitude
In May 2011, the Lectio Divina Service Team of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. developed and presented a six-day Lectio Divina Immersion Retreat that focused on the four senses of scripture: literal, […]
Promise
During the retreat our minister led us on a journey of self-knowledge – where we were in relation to God and where we stood as far as forgiveness of ourselves […]
In Memory of Mary Mrozowski: An Exemplar of a Lay Contemplative
Mary Mrozowski died on October 18, 1993. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Mary’s death and her contribution to the contemplative dimension of life, we offer these free recordings of her […]
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Source and Silence
“Morning after morning the Lord opens my ear that I may hear.” – Isaiah 50:4 Resting in the silence of meditative prayer is the royal road to hearing what can’t be […]
Unloading and Evacuation of Emotions
Q: There is a female inmate in a weekly Centering Prayer group I facilitate who is afraid of doing Centering Prayer on a daily basis because she believes she would […]
On the Method of Centering Prayer
Q: I am an Episcopalian practicing Christian meditation, and find myself agonizing about technique, being somewhere between Father Keating and John Main. As I am disabled, I meditate lying down, […]
The Lesson of the Leaves
Are we not like the leaves?While living, the leaf is part of the tree Becoming thereBeing created, then growingBecoming stronger, greener Then having lived, gives up its life with the […]
Yet Still
And what do I know through all of this? Is God truly to be trusted? When you find you can be happy, although your heart is broken and still bear […]
