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October 14, 2024 by Registrar

Spirit Journal – May 2024

Preview

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

[Download pdf to read more . . .]

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October 14, 2024 by Registrar

Spirit Journal – April 2024

Photo: Silvia Lobo

Preview

This post-eclipse, Eastertide issue includes:

  • Information about our April 27 workshop, in collaboration with the Theosophical Society, on Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle – live or online with Juliana Cesano
  • Your invitation to a Zoom workshop we are co-sponsoring with Contemplative Outreach of Atlanta on May 11, with Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher
  • 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?
  • The announcement of our first member survey in four years – please participate!
  • A listing of in-person and online prayer groups you may wish to join
  • Spring Insights from Rainer Maria Rilke, Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy and Charlotte Brontë

[Download pdf to read more . . .]

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October 14, 2024 by Registrar

Spirit Journal – March 2024

Preview

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

[Download pdf to read more . . .]

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October 14, 2024 by Registrar

Spirit Journal – February 2024

Preview

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

[Download pdf to read more . . .]

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February 4, 2024 by Registrar

Spirit Journal – January 2024

Preview

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.

[Download pdf to read more . . .]

 

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February 3, 2024 by Registrar

Spirit Journal – December 2023

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!

Preview

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

[Download pdf to read more . . .]

 

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