Support Groups and Teaching in Centering Prayer/Meditation
Saturday mornings
via Zoom/Online - call the parish office to be added to the Online group
and
10:00am once per Month (usually 1st Saturday of the month, meet in person in Forliti Gathering Room)
This is an open and ongoing group offering support to persons committed to Centering Prayer or some form of meditation. It provides introduction and continuing spiritual formation. Each gathering includes two 20-minute prayer periods, with a meditative walk between them. There is reflection on the experiences, difficulties, benefits of this prayer. During the second part of each gathering, there is instruction and discussion.
Suggested Reading for Centering Prayer/Christian Meditation/Lectio Divina:
Thomas Keating — Open Mind, Open Heart, 1986 (Contemplative Dimension of Gospel)
Cynthia Bourgeault — Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, 2004; The Wisdom Way of Knowing, 2003
Basil Pennington — Centering Prayer, 1979; Lectio Divina, 1998
Anonymous — The Cloud of Unknowing
James Finley — The Contemplative Heart, 2000
Lawrence Freeman — John Main: Essential Writings, 2002
Bede Griffiths — A New Vision of Reality, 1989
Thelma Hall — Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina, 1988
John Main — Word Into Silence, 1980; The Present Christ, 1991
Thomas Merton — Contemplative Prayer, 1971 (and other writings)
Guinilla Norris — Sharing Silence, 1992
Henry Nouwen — Out of Solitude, 1974 (and other writings)
Ronald Rolheiser — The Holy Longing, 1999
Laura Swan — The Forgotten Desert Mothers, 2001
Evelyn Underhill — Practical Mysticism (and other writings)