Contemplative Spirituality
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Contemplative Spirituality
Contemplative spirituality can be defined as a life of faith in interior submission to God and pervading all one’s motivations and behavior; a life of prayer and action prompted by the inspirations of the Holy Spirit; a disposition not limited to devotional practices, rituals, liturgy, or other particular acts of piety or service to others, but rather the catalyst that integrates, unifies and directs all one’s activities. Gerald May, M.D., expresses it this way: “The Christian expression is in the two great commandments: to love God with one’s whole self and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Theologically, spirituality is our desire for love’s fulfillment which, in turn, is our response to God’s loving us first (1 Jn 4:19). We participate in the divine love that created us “so that we might seek God” (Acts 17:27). Further, the Christian contemplative tradition views God as always active in our lives, inviting, drawing and empowering us towards deepening love. … In a Christian context, because we “live and move and have our being” in God (Acts 17:28), being present to things as they are involves encountering the Christ who “fills the whole creation” (Eph. 1:23). In other words, Christian contemplation means finding God in all things and all things in God. Brother Lawrence, the 17th century Carmelite friar, called it “the loving gaze which finds God everywhere.””
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Thomas Keating – The Secret Embrace
Fr. Thomas Keating wanted to include a poem he had written in the next printing of Pet…$25.00Thomas Keating – From the Mind to the Heart
Conversations with Thomas Keating and John Osborne. Edited by Thomas Keating and Peter C. Jones. …$25.00God Is Love – The Heart of All Creation – Guidebook
God is Love: The Heart of All Creation Series continues and builds on the works of Thomas Keating ov…$25.00Active Prayer: Pray Without Ceasing, a digital download
Active Prayer: a 49-page booklet guiding the participant through the use of the active prayer sent…$10.00The Path of Centering Prayer, Deepening Your Experience of God
By David Frenette For all Christians who seek to move closer into the presence of the Divine, The Pa…$15.95World Without End
In conversations with filmmaker and writer Lucette Verboven, Fr. Thomas Keating looks back on h…$15.00Consenting to God as God Is
Collects the intimate talks and daily presentations of Fr. Keating with members of Extension Contemp…$15.00Process of Forgiveness
by Fr. William Meninger An exploration of the most complex but necessary facet of spirit…$19.95That We May Be One – Christian Non-Duality: A Companion Book
That We May Be One – Christian Non-Duality, with Fr. Thomas Keating. This book is an edited transc…$25.00St. Therese of Lisieux, A Transformation in Christ
Commentaries on the spiritual life as seen through six parables of Jesus and insights from the life …$10.00That We May Be One – Christian Non-Duality: A Companion Book, PDF
That We May Be One – Christian Non-Duality, with Fr. Thomas Keating. This book is an edited transc…$13.00God Is Love – The Heart of All Creation DVD package
God is Love: The Heart of All Creation Series continues and builds on the works of Thomas Keating ov…$59.95The Gift of Life – Death & Dying, Life & Living companion book pdf
This book is an edited transcript of the DVD series by the same name. In addition, it contains beaut…$8.00God is All in All Digital Download mp3
“One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” –Ephesians 4:6 (NAB) …$12.00The Vision of Contemplative Outreach – brochure by Thomas Keating
In 2017, an update was made to the Contemplative Outreach vision in order to reflect the evolution o…$8.50The Loving Search for God
by Fr. William Meninger The contemporary contemplative life in terms of the book, The Cl…$19.95