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From Seeker to Sage: Journey to the Unknowable
This retreat experience provides an opportunity to come together to explore and reflect upon the following: The various paths of life we have traveled. Stages of prayer related to faith development. Our personal spiritual journey; from Awakening, to Seeker, to Servant, to Sage. Realization that we have been led every step of the way by
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Silent Directed Retreat Weekend
Due to the frantic pace of contemporary life, it is essential for our spiritual and physical health to take time to pray. A weekend directed retreat offers you the opportunity to experience the graced rhythm of life in which silence and rest restore your body and God revives your soul. Liturgy, spiritual direction and optional
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3rd Welcoming Prayer Zoom Retreat
3rd Welcoming Prayer Zoom Retreat
Living Christlike through the busy schedule of life, and all that life surprises us with. (At the bottom of this page a Zoom registration link is provided.) Welcoming Prayer, a beautiful form of everyday contemplative prayer, is accessible to all now. Anyone who was introduced to Welcoming Prayer has learned a new way of connecting
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Contemplative Immersion Retreat
This retreat will focus on Centering Prayer and the integration of consent in our lives. We will explore being attentive to the wholeness of our being and the knowledge and presence resident in our bodies. We will explore the calling to live in a higher mode of consciousness, one of abundance and liberation. This invocation
Harvesting Grace: A Fall Contemplative Retreat
This contemplative retreat invites you to engage with the Sacred in nature and encounter God as the Creating and Sustaining Spirit of all. It will be a time to rest in body and “rest in the grace of the world.” The weekend will offer scheduled sessions including three Centering Prayer sessions, terra divina (sacred earth),
Centering Prayer: Weekend Immersion – Deepening the Contemplative Dimension of Life
This retreat will focus on Centering Prayer and the integration of consent in our lives. There will be communal Centering Prayer sessions each day. We will explore attentiveness to the wholeness of our being and open to the knowledge and presence resident in our bodies. Centering Prayer will open us to a deepening felt sense
Harvesting Grace: A Fall Contemplative Retreat
Harvesting Grace: A Fall Contemplative Retreat
This contemplative retreat invites you to engage with the Sacred in nature, encounter God as the Creating and Sustaining Spirit of all. It will be a time to rest in body and “rest in the grace of the world.” Anchored in Centering Prayer, the weekend will offer scheduled options to participate in terra divina (sacred
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9-Day Advanced Intensive and Post-Intensive Retreat
At the time of the retreat, we will adapt to circumstances as needed. We are prepared to offer this retreat either online or residentially at the Mercy Center. In either case, you will have the option to stay at the Mercy Center. Pre-requisite: Prior attendance at an 8-10 day Intensive I Retreat (offered in March)
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The Divine Feminine and the Transformation of Consciousness
HYBRID RETREAT October 15-17, 2021 Starts 10 am Friday and ends 12 pm Sunday $300 Online / $350 on site at Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA In the practice of Centering Prayer we open ourselves to God in the unknown places of ourselves, to the unloading of the unconscious mind, each time we give our
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Visio/Lectio Divina
Mary Kay Laplante, of Bethany Retreat Center, and Beth Graboski, of Contemplative Outreach, will offer a workshop/retreat combining the ancient practices of Visio Divina and Lectio Divina. Visio Divina (Divine Seeing) is a way of drawing closer to God through meditation on visual objects. It is an intentional way of praying with images. Mary Kay
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Six-Day Centering Prayer Retreat: Intensive & Post-Intensive
The retreat will provide an opportunity to deepen one’s practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of profound silence and community support. All participants observe silence from the opening to the closing of the retreat. The retreat leaders are Susan Rush and Nick Cole. The retreat will be held at the Claggett Retreat Center in
7-Day Silent Directed Retreat
Receive the healing and transforming grace of seven days with God, savoring the silence and prayer that open your whole being to God’s Word and Presence. Daily liturgy, spiritual direction and optional Centering Prayer periods are included. For more information, click on the link below.
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The Cloud of Unknowing 5-day Retreat
Join us for a deep contemplative journey into The Cloud of Unknowing. This 14th-century work is the basis for the method and practice of Centering Prayer. During this 5-day retreat, with the writings of The Cloud of Unknowing as our guide, Doug Laplante will lead an exploration into five key elements of the spiritual journey:
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At the Edge of Waiting: Centering Prayer and Celtic Spirituality – Online
Presented by Carl McColman Join us for an online retreat day where we will explore the connections between Celtic wisdom and contemplative spirituality! Celtic Christianity -- the poetic and earth-positive spirituality of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales -- has long been appreciated as one of the most beautiful expressions of faith in the western world. The
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Fall Triduum Wisdom Retreat – ONLINE
The Mercy Center Centering Prayer Program presents: Fall Triduum Wisdom Retreat ONLINE 3 Evenings Sunday October 31st, Monday November 1st and Tuesday November 2nd, 2021 4:30-6:00 pm, USA Pacific Time "In the quiet, brown time of the year, these fall Triduum days are an invitation to do the profound inner work: to face our shadows
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