Recovery, the power of story, in the silence of Centering Prayer This retreat explores the essential principles that formed the first steps of The Twelve Step program of recovery now […]
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By Benedicte Vibe Christensen In June 2018 Pat Johnston, the interim administrator of Contemplative Outreach, asked me to mentor Brother Columba, a young monk (then 26) in a monastery in […]
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by Cherry Haisten member of Welcoming Prayer service team At the end of early editions of Open Mind, Open Heart appears a list Thomas Keating calls “Means of Extending the […]
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Presenter Formation Training is being offered at the Sophia Center in Atchinson, Kansas Sept 19-22. This is for those feeling called to become a commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer. Sponsored […]
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Presenter Formation to become a commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer is being offered at Mercy Centers beautiful Auburn California retreat center April 14 – 16th and is led by Susan […]
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Be still and know that I am God. – Psalm 46:10 “Centering Prayer is a discipline to foster interior transformation, initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine […]
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8-day post intensive Centering Prayer retreat Please email Patricia to register. […]
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Saint Benedict Center Schuyler, Nebraska “We must seek God more and more in the present moment, which is in fact the only place where God can be found. Since God […]
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Two Session Event: February 27th and 28th, 2023 from 6 PM to 8 PM (Central) each day. The Introduction to Centering Prayer explores the place of contemplative prayer in the […]
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Q: Over the last few months I’ve been experiencing a lot of deep grief during Centering Prayer periods followed by understandings outside of prayer into trauma that occurred when […]
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Q: Prior to discovering Centering Prayer I practiced meditation using a mantra. Somewhere along the way I found myself inside a space like the cleft of a rock, which I […]
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Using gardening as a metaphor, this workshop will look at the process of discernment in terms of tilling the soil of one’s soul, planting a seed for discernment and watching […]
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