Voices of the Community
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Voices of the Community
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The St. Louis chapter hosted the Living Flame Program in 2012 and 2013. I was asked to share my experience of that time, which I recall fondly. The Living Flame [...]
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Voices of the Community
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How could we make Holy Week special? My husband cannot make the 3 p.m. Good Friday service as feeding time is 3:30 p.m. There was no way either of us [...]
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Voices of the Community
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I experienced another person’s energy when I first started my medical career. As a trauma team lead during my medical training, a motorcycle wreck victim was brought in. It was [...]
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A Blessed Psalm
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Blessed are those who, when there is nowhere left to go, turn inward; for they shall find the Center of all. Your love sustains Blessed are those who dwell in [...]
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Que Sera Sera
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Lyrics from a popular Doris Day song from the 1950’s: “Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be;the future’s not ours to see, que sera sera” A few years ago [...]
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Prayer in Secret
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An inner turningOf the heart and mind;An unseen embraceInto Love divine. What deep communionIs this secret prayer;A constant unfoldingInto Love’s great care. The sweetness of engaged delightAway from the worldYet [...]
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What is the relevance of a contemplative practice today? What fruits have you noticed in your life and what do you understand by the purification process? With the rapid evolution [...]
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Voices of the Community
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Dear Fr. Thomas and Contemplative Outreach associates, I’m grateful to God for Fr. Thomas’ inspired vision in founding Contemplative Outreach 30 years ago, and for the many following years of [...]
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A New Tree
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To see with new eyes the Christmas treeIs but an outward showOf a deeper realityThat we have come to know. For isn’t the Christmas tree,Hung with ornaments aplentyA deep reminder [...]
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Kneeling in a vast hemispherical hall, I am surrounded by what seem to me must be the souls of all who have ever lived and of all those who ever [...]
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Words of Power
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God brought the beasts before Adamand he gave to each a name:bull, pig, goat, sheep, dog.His children called them by their names,and lo! they came when called.So shamans and savants [...]
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Centering Prayer is …
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Centering prayer is cuddling with Christ.Centering prayer is taking out the trash of the subconscious.Centering prayer is releasing a handful of helium balloons; a heart-full of joy.Centering prayer is laying [...]
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Presence in the Silence
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I had been working as a hospital chaplain for just a few months, when one morning I visited a patient (let’s call her Joan) who was due to have complicated [...]
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Voices of the Community
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About five years ago, I was searching for a spiritual practice. One day, a notice appeared in our local paper about an event called “A Taste of Silence.” The rest, [...]
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Voices of the Community
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Sometimes, I am goodness, truth & beautyand sometimes I act upon another nature,superimposed on mea life mask over my innocent self,the mask is made of projections, assumptions, and judgements [...]
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Anything less than a contemplative perspective on lifeis an almost certain program for unhappiness. – Father Thomas Keating Recently a group from Las Vegas enjoyed [...]
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A Centering Prayer
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O Holy Spirit please,please seal my soulinto your service. Let silence soarwithin our boundless beingthat I may wakento our wonder of oneness. Let me sit in stillnessand know that You [...]
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A Heartfulness Practice
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I suspect that whatever has occurred in my life in this regard has, to a significant extent, been a gift that I have received through my practice and involvement related [...]
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Why Do I Sit in Silence?
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Why do I sit in silence?I sit in silence to be with God.I sit in silence so God can act in me.I sit in silence to forget me.I sit in [...]
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Yahuwah’s Love
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Yahuwah, as a child in your Garden offering You your flowers,You smile tenderly and hold me in your arms for hours.|Yahuwah, I live in your Heart, offering You your Love… [...]
