Featured in the Newsletter
- Report from COOP Fall Retreat
- Sunday Soup and Contemplation In-Person Every Sunday
- Sit + Reflect Virtual Centering Prayer Group
- Labyrinth, Simple Supper, & Taize
- Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Mystic — A Dialogue with Cynthia Bourgeault and David Frenette (via Zoom)
- 12-Step Introductory Workshops – Welcoming Practice Prayer Videos
- No Frills Second Sits – Zoom
- Meditation Chapel
- Black Contemplative Prayer
- Retreats 2025
Report from COOP Fall Retreat
Anonymous comment:
Outstanding! The deep silence in the circle; the gorgeous setting outside and facilities inside; the fresh, plentiful, healthy food, pleasant staff! Challenge? Enjoying the rain.
photo by Brian Curry
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.
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.
Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Mystic A Dialogue with Cynthia Bourgeault and David Frenette
10 am – 11 am Pacific Time
Event is free
$25 suggested donation
This event will be recorded
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.
Photo by photo: Anita Mayes
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
The donate button below will take you to our PayPal donation page.
Small amounts are most welcome.
COOP is a volunteer association without 501c3 non-profit status. Donations are not tax-deductible.
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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