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Daily Lenten Prayer for Friday, March 25, 2011

Jesus Christ, our light, life and love: You have shown us the Way of surrender to self. Help each of us to release our demands for life to be different. In total honesty, we will accept life as it occurs today, neither thinking we deserve more nor feeling guilty for all we have been given. [...]

Make the Most of Lent: Daily Prayer-Reflection for Ash Wednesday, March 9.2011

Today is Ash Wednesday, a day that marks the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent.  You might be wondering how to make the most of Lent this year. Here are a few thoughts from a contemplative perspective. First, it is important to know that Lent is a time of preparation to experience the fullness of God’s [...]

Daily Prayer-Reflection for Wednesday, February 2, 2011

God of Unending Welcome: Urge our hearts into relentless honesty to know our truth hidden by the masks we wear in a world that doesn’t feel quite safe to reveal the depth of our being. Where we feel mocked, inspire connected courage that feels the oneness of our human life beyond all the differences. Where [...]

Merry Christmas, 2010

On behalf of ContemplativeChristians.com, we wish you and  yours a deeply joyful Christmas! May the love of Christ make itself personal, close and warm to, in and through you this day. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from the chapel of Kings College, Cambridge. All love, Peter Traben Haas

Advent Daily Prayer Reflection for Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24, 2010

The sound of silence opens into song, with stars leading to the Light of the World made visible in the human field of flesh and form. This ecstasy of love leaps forth through eternity into time to be for us the hope of love lived to give all for all; that it may become the [...]

Book Now Available – The God Who Is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church by Peter Traben Haas

WIth deep joy and gratitude, we are pleased to announce that Peter’s first book, The God Who Is Here is now available, just in time for Christmas. Order! Share! Let us know what you think. Now available at http://lanternbooks.com

Advent Daily Prayer for Thursday, December 16, 2010

Light of the World: May your Word reveal to each of us the path to wisdom and love in our relationships and choices. Where there is darkness in our personality and shadows cast by traumas past or anxieties present, gently illumine these opportunities for grace with the light of your eternal love made personal through [...]

Advent Daily Prayer for Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Holy God, Name beyond all Names: Your Love announces to our innermost fears and insecurities an intention to transform us into vessels of your Life. With Mary we surrender to the overshadowing presence of Spirit raising us to meet our unexpected destiny as bearers of Christ. Through this silent formation you touch our lives so [...]

Models of Christian Prayer

In this seminar, pastor Peter Traben Haas explores two primary methods of prayer in the Christian tradition – the discursive and the contemplative, with special focus on the importance of Centering Prayer for our generation and the future of humankind. Click here to download or listen to the MP3 format: Models of Christian Prayer

Part 5: 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

  Misperception #5: Centering Prayer is “Eastern” Meditation.    Centering Prayer is not Eastern Meditation because it is a method of prayer formulated by several Roman Catholic Trappist Monks using principles drawn from the Catholic and Christian monastic and contemplative prayer tradition through such primary Christian writers as John of The Cross, the unknown author of the [...]

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