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Spirit Journal – July 2023

Preview

This issue includes:

  • Information about our 2023 One-Day Fall Workshop coming up in September, featuring Susan Lincoln and Craig Toungate – early bird pricing ends soon
  • An invitation to participate in an online version of the Living Flame –  a one-time only event to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of this transformational program
  • A listing of workshops and events of potential interest to you, from multiple Contemplative Outreach chapters and other groups
  • Information about available Centering Prayer groups, in-person and online
  • Insights from Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Keating, Jack Kornfield and Mel Brooks

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Spirit Journal – June 2023

Preview

This issue includes:

  • An invitation to take part in our our Seven-Day Summer Intensive/Post-Intensive Retreat at the Siena Retreat Center, July 23-29 (please register by June 15, if possible)
  • Information about an 11th-step Forgiveness Retreat offered at Healing Gardens on Saturday June 17
  • The first announcement of our 2023 One-Day Fall Workshop coming up in September, featuring Susan Lincoln and Craig Toungate
  • A moving reflection on Ubuntu, written by Kit Snyder from Contemplative Outreach of Colorado
  • A listing of workshops and events of potential interest to you, from multiple Contemplative Outreach chapters and other groups
  • Information about available Centering Prayer groups, in-person and online
  • Insights from Alan Watts, Karen Armstrong, Thomas Keating, and Thomas Merton

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Spirit Journal – May 2023

Preview

This issue invites you to deepen your contemplative practice this summer with:

  • An invitation to take part in our our Seven-Day Summer Intensive/Post-Intensive Retreat at the Siena Retreat Center, July 23-29 (please register by June 15, if possible)
  • A prayer request from the Extensión Contemplativa Internacional
  • A listing of additional workshops and events of potential interest to you, from multiple Contemplative Outreach chapters and other groups
  • Information about available Centering Prayer groups, in-person and online
  • Insights from Howard Thurman, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, and Thomas Keating

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Spirit Journal – April 2023

Preview

This issue focuses on strengthening and broadening the contemplative community, with:

  • Information about Ubuntu and Contemplation, a very special workshop coming up on May 13 with Michael Battle
  • A short primer on Ubuntu by Michael Battle, drawn from his 2009 book, Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me.
  • Your first chance to sign up for our our Seven-Day Summer Intensive/Post-Intensive Retreat at the Siena Retreat Center, scheduled for July 23-29
  • A listing of additional workshops and events of potential interest to you, from multiple Contemplative Outreach chapters and other groups
  • Information about available Centering Prayer groups, in-person and online
  • Insights on community from Thomas Keating, Simone Weil, Ram Dass, and Michael Battle

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Spirit Journal – March 2023

Preview

This issue includes

  • An invitation to register for The Way of the Mystic: St. Teresa’s Life and Teaching, a Zoom workshop with Juliana Cesano, which will take place on Saturday March 25
  • Details about – and your first chance to register for – Ubuntu and Contemplation, coming on May 13 with Michael Battle
  • A save-the-date notice for our six-day summer Intensive/Post-Intensive at the Siena Retreat Center, scheduled for July 23-29
  • A listing of nine more offerings of potential interest to you, from multiple Contemplative Outreach chapters and other groups
  • A lovely reflection, In the Garden, from our frequent contributor Johanna Ash
  • Information about available Centering Prayer groups, in-person and online
  • Insights from Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, Hildegard of Bingen, and John of the Cross

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Spirit Journal – February 2023

Preview

Our February issue includes:

  • The initial announcement of The Way of the Mystic: St. Teresa’s Life and
    Teaching, a Zoom workshop with Juliana Cesano, which will take place
    on Saturday March 25
  • A reminder that this Saturday, Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and
    Washington is offering the online workshop, Conversations with Howard
    Thurman
  • Information about an Introductory Centering Prayer Workshop via Zoom
    February 27-28
  • A link to the newly available YouTube video of the recent workshop Howard
    Thurman: An Active Contemplative, with Lerita Coleman Brown
  • An announcement of the first-ever online Living Flame program being
    offered by Contemplative Outreach Ltd.
  • Information about an in-person 12-step Centering Prayer retreat this May in
    Racine
  • A save-the-date notice for our six-day summer Intensive/Post-Intensive
    Retreat scheduled for July 23-29
  • An invitation to a Lenten morning of meditation on Saturday February 25
    from the Christian Meditation groups at St. John of the Cross, Western
    Springs
  • A beautiful, very meaningful pre-Lenten reflection and poem by Linda
    Jackim
  • Information about available Centering Prayer groups, in-person and online
  • Insights from Howard Thurman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Ian Marcus Corbin,
    and Gerard Manley Hopkins

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