Centering Prayer NY

If you’re in NY, tune in Thursday to Busted Halo columnist and NYC Contemplative Outreach asst. coordinator Phil Fox Rose on Currents talking about Centering Prayer and Christian meditation. The piece will air during Thursday’s broadcast on the cable network NET (used to be called the Prayer Channel): Thu, 6/24 at 7:30pm, 11:30pm and Fri [...]

Do you seek the still, small voice of God?

This workshop will help you to become more open to the God within and hear with the “ear of the heart.”

Centering Prayer is a renewal of an ancient form of Christian prayer. It is a method of consenting to the presence and action of Christ in the [...]

Join us for a very special event with Contemplative Outreach President Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler

It is called “contemplative service” because we are willing to put ourselves in the role of lesser — one of servant, one who serves another and ultimately, one who lives in service to God’s will. We no longer need to be seen, to [...]

Silence. Quiet. Stillness. Openness. Listening. These are all words that suggest themselves to someone who is beginning to taste the reality of God’s presence within. You only have to be a human being to be eligible to be a contemplative.
Thomas Keating

A worldwide wave of [...]

The St. Blandina Society & Contemplative Outreach of New York City are pleased to co-sponsor and invite you to experience…

Heartfulness: Transformation in Christ

with Thomas Keating and Betty Sue Flowers

“In this new series, the accumulated wisdom of Fr. Thomas’ many years of teaching and practice are condensed to addresses the big questions of spirituality for [...]

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Silence.  Quiet.  Stillness.  Openness.  Listening.  These are words that describe the experience of someone who is beginning to taste the reality of God’s presence within.

“Silence,” wrote Father Thomas Keating, “is God’s first language.  All other languages are poor translations.”

How can we listen to God?  How will we know God?  Where can we find [...]