Daily Prayer Reflection for Friday, September, 3 2010

Beloved Bridegroom: Speak your voice of love in the silence that we might know the direction in which to journey toward you, even as we discover there is no journey at all. You are already here with us. Transform our perception to see in this way and inspire our spiritual practice of prayer so to [...]

Daily Prayer Reflection for Thursday, September, 2 2010

 Life Giving God:  Bring your force of life into the darkness of our bellies where the flat, heavy boredom of depression drains our energy and paralyzes our will. Release the pent-up life in the center of our being enabling us to say YES to you and the path to life. Take away the depression in [...]

Daily Prayer Reflection for Wednesday, September, 1 2010

Click here to listen to the prayer: Most Loving and Almighty God: We enter into this month with thanksgiving in our hearts for the nourishment we have received during the long summer days. Now, we feel the seasons shifting and familiar life-rhythms returning. Give us force of will to fulfill our new intentions for ourselves [...]

Daily Prayer Reflection for Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Image by linkfinger via Flickr Holy Trinity: Send comfort to those who work in situations that demand more than they give. Help each one that is on the verge of falling apart experience that you are even there. We cannot comprehend the suffering of life, so help us to trust you through it, with the [...]

Part 3: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

  by Rev. Peter Traben Haas    © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.   All Rights Reserved.          Misperception #3: Centering Prayer is dangerous.     Centering Prayer is not dangerous, but it can be disruptive. Centering Prayer is disruptive to the parts of us that wish to resist God’s love and grace. These parts, psychologically speaking, might be called the [...]

Daily Prayer for Monday, August 30, 2010.

Click Here to Listen Our daily prayer for Monday, August 30, 2010.   © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.

Evening Prayer for Sunday, August 29, 2010

Click Here to Listen Our evening prayer for Sunday, August 29, 2010.   © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.

Sermon: Empathy and the Christian Life

Click Here to Listen In this sermon Peter Haas uses the story of Naomi in the Book of Ruth to teach several insights about the call to compassion and empathy.   © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.

The Charter for Compassion

Daily Prayer Reflection for Friday, August 27, 2010

Under the shield of the Name of Jesus Christ, all is victorious. All threads of lies and darkness are pulled back to their ends and frayed open in this Name’s light and love. These knots and threads no longer hold us. Today, we wish to live under the shield of thy Name and in the [...]