AWAKENING TO GOD’S PRESENCE IN OUR LIVES:
Foundations of the Practice
Saturday April 22, 9:30 – 1:30 pm | In our Saint Barnabas Chapel
Led by Rev. Jim Clark, Liza Bell, and Debbie Moore
Followed by:
Five Wednesday evening sessions (online)
“Intimacy with God” | 7:00-8:30pm | Z_o_o_m
*More than a meditation technique, Centering Prayer is a uniquely Christian practice of consenting to God’s presence and action within. During Centering Prayer, we learn to gently return our chattering minds, again and again, to our intention of just allowing God to love us. With consistent practice, we notice a growing sense of presence and peace infusing more of our waking hours. As God does God’s patient work within us, we gradually begin to transform habits and behaviors that have limited our ability to be the hands of Christ in the world.
“And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. Citizens, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. So what we have to recover is our original unity. Who we have to be is who we are.” -Thomas Merton
The program is ecumenical and free of charge, but registration is required.
Learn more about Contemplative life at Saint Barnabas.