Thomas Keating
Re-Entering Community through Silence: Centering Prayer Retreat with Mary Dwyer
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesPresenter: Mary Dwyer Come away to Bethany Retreat Center for a deeper experience of Centering Prayer in community. We will have extended prayer times (3 to 4 hours per day) and input on deepening our Centering Prayer practice. The retreat will be in silence with time for personal reflection and renewal. An already established knowledge
Two Thomases: Merton and Keating Leading Us to Transformation – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesA devotee of both Thomas Merton and Thomas Keating, Maggie Winfrey will share her reflections how these two have guided her spiritual journey simply as an ordinary seeker. A contemplative for over four decades, Maggie Winfrey taught kids to read as well as led adult spiritual enrichment for over 35 years. A commissioned presenter of
Centering Prayer: The Human Condition via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesThe Mercy Center Centering Prayer Program presents: Centering Prayer and the Human Condition Live Online Saturday May 15, 2021 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM USA Pacific Time "Where are you? Why are you hiding?” In his book The Human Condition, Thomas Keating writes, "This marvelous story of creation is not just about Adam and Eve.
The Gift of Life: Death & Dying, Life & Living via Zoom – 12-Step Friendly
Internet - Online , United StatesCovid-19 has caused most of us to experience some type of loss, stress, questions of faith and possibly death of loved ones. Even without Covid-19, there is an almost universal pondering we share about suffering and death. Join us as we explore these common and often "tabooed" subjects in a four-part Zoom meeting series. Four
Opening to Our Pre-Existing Union with God
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesPresenter: Keith Kristich So many of us grow up with the message that God is the great, old Guy-in-the-Sky. This God loves the world, but is ultimately separate from it and separate from us. But the great contemplatives say otherwise, that God is the Heart of our hearts and the very Center of our souls.
Contemplative Spirituality in a Contemporary Time
Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United StatesPresenter - Susan Komis What is contemplation? In addition to exploring three stages critical to our spiritual journey relative to prayer and faith in ordinary life, this extended weekend retreat will include presentation and discussion on the dynamic of the many people who are beginning to experience and live a contemplative life in our contemporary
Guard of the Heart, A Traditional Way to Enrich Your Contemplative Practice via Zoom
Internet - Online , United States"Guard of the Heart … disposes us to let go of personal likes and dislikes and to accept painful situations as they arise." “It deals with the whole of life. It expresses our ongoing intention to be with God in the present moment and sustains it.” - Fr. Thomas Keating as told to Bob Mischke
Introduction to Centering Prayer via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesAre you looking for a way to explore or deepen your relationship with God? In our introductory workshop to Centering Prayer, you will discover a centuries-old prayer method. Centering Prayer consists of simply sitting in silence with God - beyond thoughts, words, and emotions - and opening our mind, heart and whole being to the
Basic Centering Prayer via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesIf you have taken the Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop and want to make Centering Prayer a daily practice, this six-week basic course is the next step. Each week, you will view a video-taped talk on the Spiritual Journey by Fr. Thomas Keating, followed by group discussion. The course will cover such topics as prayer as
Spirituality in Everyday Life via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesIn this six-week course, Fr. Keating continues to expand on the human condition, using St. Anthony of Egypt as a paradigm of a pilgrim on the spiritual journey and shows how this early desert saint’s struggles mirror ours with the false self. Fr. Keating then takes us beyond the struggle to liberation from the false-self
Heartfulness workshop – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesIn the Heartfulness 9-week series, Fr. Thomas Keating reminds us that we are called by God to open to a new reality that is our true Self … the image and likeness of God. The path to this true Self and all its fruits and gifts is the challenge of becoming fully human, and to
Six Continuing Sessions to the Introduction to Centering Prayer: ZOOM ONLY
Center for Contemplative Living in Elm Grove WI 890 Elm Grove Road, The Village Court, WI, United States“Centering Prayer is a practice that sensitizes us to God’s presence that is already there.” - Thomas Keating The inner world is not always familiar to us. Designed for beginners, longtime practitioners have benefited from revisiting the basics from a new level. Bring your questions as we together become grounded in this prayer based on
