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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
UNITED IN
PRAYER DAY
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Join us this year for the 20th annual United in Prayer Day featuring Spiritual Enrichment from the 2011 DVD,
Contemplative Journey Revisited where Fr. Thomas Keating presents “The House of God, The Womb of God.” (44minutes).
Centering Prayer will also be conducted. All are invited to St. Olaf Catholic Church, Downtown Mpls. Or Church
of St. Peter, Mendota Heights.
Click on Enrichment Ops button and scroll down to churches indicated above for
further information
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Open Mind, Open Heart
Ultimate Mystery
God, you are my God, I pine for you…
Psalm 63:1 NJB
The root of prayer is interior silence. We may think of prayer as thoughts or feelings expressed in words. But this is
only one expression. Deep prayer is the laying aside of thoughts. It is the opening of mind and heart, body and feelings—our
whole being--- to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond words, thoughts, and emotions. We do not resist them or suppress them.
We accept them as they are and go beyond them, not by effort, but by letting them all go by. We open our awareness to the
Ultimate Mystery, whom we know by faith is within us closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than choosing—closer
than consciousness itself. The Ultimate Mystery is the ground in which our being is rooted, the source from whom our
life emerges at every moment. (OM, 136)
Psalm 63:1 NJB
God, you are my God, I pine for you;
my heart thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
as a land, parched, dreary and waterless.
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