Newsletter

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In this issue, you’ll find:

• A link to our first member survey in four years – please help us plan for the future
• Your invitation to this summer’s Intensive/Post-Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat – next month at the Siena Retreat Center
• Information about WCCM’s 2024 John Main Seminar, coming up in July
• Notice of a weekend retreat, “Abide,” starting May 31
• A link to the 2024 Contemplative Events Calendar, which lists online and in-person events through December
• A “help-wanted” notice: Can you help us build an effective social media presence?
• A listing of in-person and online prayer groups you may wish to join
• May Insights from Maya Angelou, John Main, Thomas Keating, and James Baldwin

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This edition includes:

• The awarding of the very first Alan Krema Scholarship – congratulations to Rosemary Armocida!
• Our first announcement of an April 27 workshop on Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle – live or online with Juliana Cesano
• An invitation from Contemplative Outreach of Colorado to their March 23 workshop with our good friend Michael Battle – Contemplative Prayer and African Christian Mysticism – live or online
• Information about a Zoom workshop we are co-sponsoring with Contemplative Outreach of Atlanta on May 10, with Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher
• An invitation to an in-person Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop to be presented in Plainfield on March 23 by JoAnne and Bill McElroy
• An updated calendar of events of interest, local and online, through the end of this year
• A listing of in-person and online prayer groups
• Insights from Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Teresa of Avila, Michael Battle, and Thomas Keating

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In our February newsletter, you’ll find:

• An invitation to join us tomorrow for a contemplative/musical experience – Notes of Rest with Julian Davis Reid – at St. Leonard’s Ministry on February 15
• Information about an interfaith event with Carl McColman, which we are co-presenting with the Theological Society in America in March
• Thoughts from Alan Krema about the beginning of Lent and the very high level of current interest in Introductory Centering Prayer workshops
•  A reminder that you are invited to apply for the Alan Krema Scholarship
• “A Lenten Pilgrimage” – snatches of spiritual memoir from Johanna Ash
• Notice of additional contemplative events coming up soon from the St. John of the Cross Christian Meditation Groups, and Contemplative Outreach chapters in Colorado and Southeast Wisconsin
• An updated calendar of events of interest, local and online, through the end of this year
• A listing of in-person and online prayer groups
• Insights from Thomas Merton, Esau McCaully, Walter Brueggemann, and Barbara Holmes

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In our first newsletter of 2024, you’ll find:

• Information on the online workshop Crisis Contemplation – Healing the Wounds of the Village, with Barbara Holmes – which we will be co-sponsoring on February 3 along with two other Contemplative Outreach chapters
• An invitation to join us for a contemplative/musical experience – Notes of Rest with Julian Davis Reid – at St. Leonard’s Ministry on February 15
• Our initial announcement of an event with Carl McColman, which we will be co-presenting with the Theological Society in America in March
•  A reminder that you are invited to apply for the Alan Krema Scholarship – will 2024 be your year to take advantage of this opportunity?
• Notice of additional contemplative events coming up soon from Jeff Ediger, the St. John of the Cross Christian Meditation Groups, and Contemplative Outreach chapters in Colorado and Southeast Wisconsin
• An updated calendar of events of interest, local and online, though the end of this year
• A listing of in-person and online prayer groups
• Insights from Meister Eckhart, Shunryu Suzuki, St. Benedict, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerard van Honthorst, 1620

Dear Friends of Contemplative Outreach Chicago – We wish you a peaceful and very Merry Christmas and all blessings in the New Year.

Thank you for being an important part of our growing contemplative community!

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In this issue:

• The first announcement of an online workshop we will be co-sponsoring in February with Contemplative Outreach of Colorado: Crisis Contemplation – Healing the Wounds of the Village, with Barbara Holmes
• A reminder that you are invited to apply for the Alan Krema Scholarship – will 2024 be your year to take advantage of this opportunity?
• Notice of important contemplative events coming up in 2024 from Closer Than Breath and Contemplative Outreach of Colorado
• A listing of in-person and online prayer groups
• Christmas Insights from Eric Sevareid, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens and Pope John XXIII

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