Contemplative Outreach is a spiritual network committed to living the contemplative dimension of Christian life through the practice of Centering Prayer, a method of prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of God's presence, contemplative prayer. The purpose of Contemplative Outreach is to teach the method of Centering Prayer and its immediate conceptual background and to support those ...

The Cloud of Unknowing Scanned by Harry Plantinga, January 1998 This book is in the public domain. A BOOK OF CONTEMPLATION THE WHICH IS CALLED THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, IN THE WHICH A SOUL IS ONED WITH GOD Edited from the British Museum MS. Harl. 674 With an Introduction BY EVELYN UNDERHILL SECOND EDITION London JOHN M. WATKINS 21 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road 1922 INTRODUCTION Contents ...

Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, an ecumenical Christian organization for contemplative spirituality ...

Guide to reading material suitable for lectio divina, along with information on this way of prayer, from the Order of St. Benedict.

Lectio Divina is a Web resource for people seeking spiritual depth through prayer and contemplation.

Web-based discussion of the practice of lectio divina, reading as a way of prayer.

Web site devoted to the Practice of the Presence of God including JUNE 2002 edition of Brother Lawrences The Practice of the Presence of God and many resources for practicing Gods presence.

ACCEPTING THE EMBRACE OF GOD: THE ANCIENT ART of LECTIO DIVINA by Fr. Luke Dysinger, O.S.B. 1. THE PROCESS of LECTIO DIVINA A VERY ANCIENT art, practiced at one time by all Christians, is the technique known as lectio divina - a slow, contemplative praying of the Scriptures which enables the Bible, the Word of God, to become a means of union with God. This ancient practice has been kept alive in ...

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