Abba: Pour your Spirit upon our minds that we might be touched with the living warmth of wisdom. By your white-hot work of purification, infuse us with the energetic flame of love and anoint us with streams of living water that quench our thirst for truth and hunger for reconciliation. Your plan is personal. We [...]
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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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by Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved. Misperception #4: Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine inside as your inner, true self. I can understand why some might think that Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine “inside.” Sometimes even the best intended teachers generate more confusion than clarity on this subject. [...]
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Guiding Grace of God: Saturate each one of us with wisdom to choose the ultimate good. Draw our hearts into prayer so to discern your guidance for the decisions of this day. Show us how to use the night hours of silence and the day hours of waiting to seek your counsel in all [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Click Here to Listen Our daily prayer for Monday, August 30, 2010. © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.
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O Lord Jesus Christ: Speak to us in the strength of your love so that we might surrender more of ourselves to you and recognize the perfect arrangement of your presence undergirding every dimension and moment of our life. Forgive us for our attempts to take control and live as if you are not the [...]
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The following is an exerpt from the forthcoming book The God Who Is Here by Peter T. Haas © 2009. To contemplate is to see. The contemplative life is one in which God is seen. In this present life, absorbed with its trials and temptations, we cannot clearly see God. Yet, there is a way in [...]
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