Centering Prayer Mobile App
The Centering Prayer mobile app, made available for free from Contemplative Outreach, supports your daily prayer practice commitment. Beautiful, elegant and peaceful, the app includes an adjustable timer, as well as opening and closing prayer options that may be read before and after Centering Prayer. An assortment of sounds and backgrounds allow you to choose the type of environment for the prayer time. Brief instructions for learning Centering Prayer are also included.
Apple iPhones & iPads
Android Phones & Tablets
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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop
This 94 minute Introductory Workshop includes themes of Prayer as Relationship, The Method of Centering Prayer, Thoughts and Use of the Sacred Word, and Deepening Our Relationship with God, as well as time when you can pause the video for two 20-minute periods of Centering Prayer. Presenters are Keith Kristich, Patricia Clough, Adam Gordon, and Irene Chang.
Online Classes
Contemplative Outreach International offers self-guided online courses for individuals or groups. For more information, click here.
Brochures
To download the MN Contemplative Outreach brochure (tri-fold), click here.
To download the Contemplative Outreach brochure on the Method of Centering Prayer, click here.
To download the Contemplative Outreach brochure on The Welcoming Prayer, click here.
To download the Contemplative Outreach brochure on The Living Flame program, click here.
Centering Prayer Introductory Program and Presenter Formation
To download the Contemplative Outreach Centering Prayer Introductory Program, click here.
To download the Contemplative Outreach Presenter Formation document, click here.
Setting up a Centering Prayer Group
Lindsay Boyer, author of Centering Prayer for Everyone, has created a website rich in resources, including helpful information on Setting up a Centering Prayer Group.
Facilitator Resources from Contemplative Outreach
- Facilitator Handbook
- Contemplative Outreach Vision & Theological Principles
- Resource Information for Presenters in Training
- The Spiritual Journey series: teaching, formation and community support for first understanding, and then living, the contemplative Christian life.
- The Spiritual Journey with Father Thomas Keating: 31 hour-long foundational talks on video
- Four Approaches to the Practice of Lectio Divina, by Father Thomas Keating
- Spiritual Enrichment and Support for Facilitating Centering Prayer Groups
82 Centering Prayer Sessions
This compilation of 82 centering prayer sessions provides facilitators with ready-to-use formats for leading their groups in prayer. Compiled by the Rev. Dr. Shawn Kafader, it includes useful suggestions and a personal introduction to the practice. To download, click here.
Selected Thomas Keating Videos
To visit the extensive video archive at Contemplative Outreach, click here.
A Rising Tide of Silence
This inspiring film documents Father Keating's evolving personal and spiritual life, and traces his advancement of Centering Prayer. To order, click here.
To visit the extensive video archive at Contemplative Outreach, click here.
A Rising Tide of Silence
This inspiring film documents Father Keating's evolving personal and spiritual life, and traces his advancement of Centering Prayer. To order, click here.
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Wood & Water Retreats
Wood & Water Retreats is an experiment exploring time-tested spiritual practices in online formats. The offerings honor the best of traditional retreat ministry – restorative hospitality, respect for the unique personal journey, and the support of a genuine community.
The anchoring image of Wood & Water comes from Psalm 1, “trees planted by streams” and reflects the hearted journeys of the two lead facilitators, Samuel Rahberg and Kiely Todd Roska. Together, they are bringing together a cadre of talented retreat leaders with seekers who want to sink deep their spiritual roots or dive in to holy waters. To learn more, click here.
Thin Places Newsletter
Published here in Minnesota, "Thin Places" is an ecumenical newsletter with a particular interest in the contemplative spiritual journey. "Thin places” is an early Celtic Christian metaphor for those times or places when the boundary between the sacred and the everyday feels "thin," when God’s presence is more strongly felt. To have it delivered to your email inbox, or to find current and back issues, click here.
Contemplative Outreach Newsletters
In this Fall 1992 Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, Father Thomas Keating responds to the specific allegation from the time suggesting that Centering Prayer was a "New Age aberration." It is followed by a helpful article on the "Role of the Facilitator."
In this Spring 1993 Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, Keating's opening article further clarifies Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops ... [on] Christian Meditation," separating Centering Prayer from Eastern meditation practices, and situating it within the context of the monastic tradition of Lectio Divina.
For an archive of Contemplative Outreach Newsletters from January 2018 to Present, click here.
For Your Spiritual Journey
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat have a website called "Spirituality and Practice," resources for the spiritual journey. They offer a wide variety of E-courses from a number of traditions including meditations on poetry and nature. Contemplative Outreach has recently used this format for presentations on Lectio Divina and forgiveness. Besides the written materials, there is on-line access to the instructors and other participants through the practice circles. To learn more, click here.
Wood & Water Retreats is an experiment exploring time-tested spiritual practices in online formats. The offerings honor the best of traditional retreat ministry – restorative hospitality, respect for the unique personal journey, and the support of a genuine community.
The anchoring image of Wood & Water comes from Psalm 1, “trees planted by streams” and reflects the hearted journeys of the two lead facilitators, Samuel Rahberg and Kiely Todd Roska. Together, they are bringing together a cadre of talented retreat leaders with seekers who want to sink deep their spiritual roots or dive in to holy waters. To learn more, click here.
Thin Places Newsletter
Published here in Minnesota, "Thin Places" is an ecumenical newsletter with a particular interest in the contemplative spiritual journey. "Thin places” is an early Celtic Christian metaphor for those times or places when the boundary between the sacred and the everyday feels "thin," when God’s presence is more strongly felt. To have it delivered to your email inbox, or to find current and back issues, click here.
Contemplative Outreach Newsletters
In this Fall 1992 Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, Father Thomas Keating responds to the specific allegation from the time suggesting that Centering Prayer was a "New Age aberration." It is followed by a helpful article on the "Role of the Facilitator."
In this Spring 1993 Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, Keating's opening article further clarifies Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops ... [on] Christian Meditation," separating Centering Prayer from Eastern meditation practices, and situating it within the context of the monastic tradition of Lectio Divina.
For an archive of Contemplative Outreach Newsletters from January 2018 to Present, click here.
For Your Spiritual Journey
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat have a website called "Spirituality and Practice," resources for the spiritual journey. They offer a wide variety of E-courses from a number of traditions including meditations on poetry and nature. Contemplative Outreach has recently used this format for presentations on Lectio Divina and forgiveness. Besides the written materials, there is on-line access to the instructors and other participants through the practice circles. To learn more, click here.