contemplative life
Key Contemplative Women Ancestors
Canterbury Retreat & Conference Center 1601 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo, FL, United StatesJoin us in person at Canterbury’s beautiful settings: $50 (includes lunch) or attend remotely via zoom for $25 A room at Canterbury for Friday night before the conference is available for an additional $116 (includes breakfast) From Mary, the mother of Jesus, the desert mothers of the early church, Amma Sarah, Amma Syncletica and Amma
Centering Prayer and the Mystical Imagination – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesContemplative Outreach Chicago's 2022 One-Day Fall Workshop presented by Carl McColman “Be still and know that I am God” is a promise from the Psalms: a promise that God may be known through stillness, silence, and contemplation. But how do we truly know God — and how does stillness truly invite us into this deeper
Heart Speaks to Heart: Correspondence as Spiritual Practice
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Judith Valente and Brother Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O. Through the ages, correspondence has been an important contemplative practice to recognize and share the presence of God in our lives. Thomas Merton considered his nearly 20,000 letters as an "apostolate of friendship." We’ll look at how Merton's most engaging letters inspired a years-long
Centering Prayer Summit – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesJoin the two-day Centering Prayer Summit: a teachings & practice event. Hear from these teachers: - Cynthia Bourgeault - Fr. Carl Arico - Carl McColman - Colleen Thomas - Phileena Nikole - Mary Dwyer - Adam Bucko - Nhien Vuong Presentation Titles: - The Mystical Roots of Centering Prayer - From Prayer to Protest: On Being
The Mystical Experience of Everyday Living
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Sophfronia Scott, M.F.A. Mysticism is often viewed as the privileged experience of a few chosen, holy individuals. But German Jesuit, Karl Rahner, wrote about "everyday mysticism,” and Carmelite Sister Ruth Burrows described the mystical life simply as “God touching the depths of our being.” God is closer than we think--to all
Lenten Day Retreat: Preparing to Accompany Jesus and Mary Magdalene through Holy Week – online or in-person
Multifaith Centre Victoria, BC, CanadaOn this Lenten Day, we will prepare ourselves to enter Holy week from the inside by embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeless passage. Let’s join together in community to learn and practice Wisdom, weaving in the transformative currents of surrender, three centered presence, attention, and recollection. May we open more
4-Day Holy Week Silent Wisdom Retreat: Accompanying Jesus and Mary Magdalene through the Paschal Mystery – in-person or online
Bethlehem Centre Nanaimo, BC, CanadaHoly Week is more than a series of events surrounding the final days of Jesus’s earthy life that we are to commemorate. We can enter this sacred week from the inside as a way of mutual accompaniment in which we are concurrently embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeless passage through
Fear, Freedom and Levels of the Mind: Cultivating Interior Freedom in Fierce Times
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Mark Kutolowski Fear blocks our ability to hear God’s presence and action in our midst. How do we live from a place of spiritual freedom in an era of upheaval and fear? In this workshop, we will seek to cultivate awareness of fear as it relates to the Primitive, Rational, and
Emotional Sobriety Through Contemplative Practice
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Jim McElroy Bill Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, coined the term “Emotional Sobriety.” He noticed that some AA members with long-term sobriety still experienced troublesome emotional reactions which were caused by “faulty emotional dependencies.” Contemplative practice heals the emotional wounds of our lifetime and touches the deep unconscious,
SAVE the DATE: Ubuntu and Contemplation: How an Indigenous African Philosophy Maps Our Spiritual Path to Global Community via Zoom
Internet - Online , United Stateswith Michael Battle https://michaelbattle.com/about/ Emerging from the ancient cultural traditions of sub-Saharan Africa, the deeply communitarian philosophy known as Ubuntu challenges Western habits of mind in ways that complement and complete the experience of contemplation. In Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices, we find a path that opens us up to oneness – both union
Prayer Without Ceasing: Contemplation in Work, Body, and Creation
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Immersion Retreat with Mark Kutolowski ‘Pray without ceasing.’ (I Thessalonians 5:17) How can we experience ceaseless prayer and conscious union of our hearts with God? This retreat will explore the integration of silent contemplation with prayerful engagement with our bodies, creative manual work, and interaction with the natural world. We’ll engage with the Benedictine
Introduction to Lectio Divina via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesThe Lectio Divina Service Team will present an Introduction to Monastic Lectio Divina. More information to come.
