Reaching Out to the World

How can we grow in our spiritual lives? An explanation of centering prayer is provided by Fr. Thomas Keating and others. The services of Contemplative Outreach, which promotes this method of contemplation around the world, are also shown.

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• Centering prayer
• Fr. Thomas Keating
• Contemplative Outreach
• prayer
• Keating
• carl arico
• gail fitzpatrick-hopler
• contemplation
• meditation
• God's presence
• God

[MannyRSilva]

@beaudashing

"My faith is better than yours nonsense." It seems to me you reject Jesus Christ Himself, who said: "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life; no one comes to the Father EXCEPT through Me." Take up your argument with the Son of God, not me. To you, ignorance is knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Take care, we will all be held accountable someday before the Lord- we will all be judged once and for all by God. Rejecting God = eternity in hell.

[greenrate]

@ExPartyGirl

Let's see . . .

When someone is having an important, personal, even intimate conversation with you on the phone . . . is it okay if they're also watching television . . . and smoking . . . and eating a hamburger . . . and filing their nails?

Or do you find that the importance . . . personalness . . . and intimacy of the conversation . . . is lost if the person is not more "centered" than that?

[MannyRSilva]

@ExPartyGirl

You are dead on right, sister. There is nothing biblical about this. It is nothing but more creations from the "religion of man."

[LifterWill]

Yesterday I participated in my first Contemplative Outreach workshop led by a member of our beloved community at our Episcopal Parish. At the beginning I was challenged by the fact that I couldn't see what particular value it might have. As the day progressed, it became wonderfully apparent that this unique prayer discipline is a most meaningful and powerful one that is most life changing.

[ExPartyGirl]

2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough."Trust the unadulterated word of God and no one's method, practice or opinion. Line it up with the word.

[ExPartyGirl]

God doesn't require us to "center" ourselves to communicate with Him. 2Timothy: 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

[ExPartyGirl]

Would someone honestly please show me scripture references of this in the Bible?I'm very interested where this is found because I personally do not see any biblical reference to it.The priest mentions it goes back to "mystical" tradition and it's a form of "centering" which is a well known NEW AGE word. God had obviously given us freewill to choose what we will follow- but call this what it is, a New Age movement- why try to disguise it as something that it's not.

[mdimytsfi]

i am delighted to see this video prepared to introduce contemplative outreach and centering prayer. God bless you more for all your efforts!

-maria =)