Featured in the Newsletter
- CP Intro Workshops: Need Locations
- New Centering Prayer Group
- Facilitators: We Need Your Help
- Closer than Breath
- No Frills Second Sits – Zoom
- Forever Zoom morning sit, Mon-Fri, 7-7:30 am, online
- Sunday Soup and Contemplation In-Person Every Sunday
- Centering Prayer for 12 Steps, Spring Spirituality Series Part One
- Meditation Chapel
- Guard of Heart
- Retreats 2025
CP Intro Workshops: Need Locations
Four new presenters-in-training will be ready to give their first workshops in September, October or early November.
Contact Gini by email at giniwg@gmail.com if you can host one in your church, home, or library.
We can also set up a Zoom workshop.
Consider offering training for newcomers before or after your CP group meeting.
Workshops can be 1/2hr, 1hr, 2hr, or 3hr sessions.
New Centering Prayer Group
A new in-person group is forming on the
first and third Tuesday each month
10-1130 am.
Queen of Angels Monastery, Chapter Room
840 S. Main St. Mt. Angel
Food and financial donations for the Mission Benedict Food Bank are welcome.
Email for more information: nanferrell45@gmail.com
Facilitators: we need your help
Closer than Breath
Free Centering Prayer e-course for beginners and practitioners.
3 consecutive Wednesdays:
August 6, 13, & 20 from 9-10:30 am Pacific Time.
Photo by Billy Huynh on Unsplash
No Frills Second Sits
Mondays through Fridays
(sometimes we need help with that second sit)
Mondays through Fridays
4:30-5:00 pm (Pacific)
No chit-chat, no extras.
All are welcome.
Drop in any time.
Contact councilcoordinating@gmail.com for login information.
Photo by photo: Chewy on Unsplash
Forever Zoom
Need a little support for your morning sit?
Forever Zoom is a no-frills online group
No chit-chat, no extras. All are welcome. Drop in any time.
Mondays through Fridays
7:00 – 7:30am
Contact councilcoordinating@gmail.com for login information.
Photo by Jackie Jabson on Pexels
Centering Prayer for 12 Steps 2025 Spring Spirituality Series- Part One
Discover How Centering Prayer Can Deepen Your 12 Step Journey
Therese W. shares her powerful story of transformation through 12 Step Recovery and Centering Prayer. Even after years of sobriety and external success, she still felt a deep inner emptiness. Learn how integrating Centering Prayer into her life helped her develop a richer, more surrendered relationship with God, one sit at a time.
Watch anytime on Vimeo by clicking on the title.
Guard of Heart
Bring Centering Prayer into daily life through the Guard of the Heart practice, one of several practices recommended by Fr. Thomas Keating.
Connect to a Contemplative Outreach article on Guard of the Heart, by Bob Mischke.
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Quote of the Month
“If every 8-year-old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”
—Dalai Lama
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