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- New! In-person Centering Prayer Group in Vancouver
- Sunday Soup and Contemplation In-Person Every Sunday
- Sit + Reflect Virtual Centering Prayer Group
- The Welcoming Prayer – Teaching and Practice
- Labyrinth, Simple Supper, & Taize
- 12-Step Introductory Workshops – Welcoming Practice Prayer Videos
- No Frills Second Sits – Zoom
- Meditation Chapel
- Black Contemplative Prayer
- Retreats 2025
In-Person Centering Prayer Group
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Church of the Good Shepherd
805 SE Ellsworth Rd, Vancouver, WA 98664
Contact Person: Dave Clark clarkio9@gmail.com
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Sit + Reflect Virtual Centering Prayer Group
Second Mondays beginning in January
6:00-7:15 PM
Cultivate silence and reflection in community:
20 minutes of Centering Prayer followed by a Keating video and discussion.
To express your interest and offer suggestions, email mjmpearl@aol.com.
The Welcoming Prayer – Teaching and Practice
Tuesdays, January 28, 2025 through March 4, 2025
4:55 pm (half hour sessions)
No Frills Zoom link
The Welcoming Prayer is known as “Consent on the Go”… we take our Centering Prayer practice out of the chair and into daily life as challenges confront us.
More information, contact Bette at butlerbdewitt@gmail.com
Labyrinth, Simple Supper, Taize (In-Person)
Join others on the first Friday of the month for all or part of an evening of contemplative prayer and fellowship.
Franciscan Spiritual Center
3159 Furman Drive, Marylhurst, OR 97036
5 pm labyrinth
6 pm supper
7 pm Taize
This is a free event, but please RSVP so we may prepare space.
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
Facilitators are on vacation the week of Sept 30 – Oct 4, but a Zoom link will be available.
Contact councilcoordinating@gmail.com for login information.
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Centering Prayer 12-Step Outreach
Welcoming Prayer Practice Videos
The Welcoming Prayer practice can be a support to many of our 12 steps, especially Steps 6 and 7. When we have emotional reactions to people, events, and situations in daily life, this practice allows us to get out of the dialogue in our head, feel what is taking place in our body, and let go.
Meditation Chapel
An Online Interspiritual Meditation Community
Looking for a different time for an on-line sit?
The Meditation Chapel is a multi-faith community of contemplatives that sponsors many groups at many times.
Check it out!
Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit
February 22-23, 2025
Join us for a transformative experience at the First Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit, where we bring together Black spiritual teachers and thought leaders to lead a powerful and enriching dialogue on prayer and practice. This summit is designed for everyone, led by Black voices, and aimed at diversifying the contemplative space.
Register before October 15 for BOGO
To the Contemplative Outreach Community
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Word of the Week
“Epiphany is the Christian celebration of what our brothers and sisters in other religions call enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the inward realization and consciousness of being identified with who we really are. We are not our false selves or egos. Kiss them goodbye. They have no future. We have to have an ego in some degree to function in this life, but the most important aspect of our life is the epiphany or revelation of God that is going on all the time in the details of life.”
– Thomas Keating,
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