These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

This Advent I am beginning (again) the practice of Centering Prayer. This time I am inspired by David Frenette’s fine book, The Path of Centering Prayer: Deepening Your Experience of God. In his work, ...

What if I get hungry at 10? The meditation technique is Centering Prayer, a method of silent prayer. A person chooses a sacred word – love, amen, Jesus, whatever – sits with closed eyes for 20 or 25 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUBURN — “Your intention, when you sit for this, is to consent to God’s ...

A contemplative movement of Christian Centering Prayer is quietly (almost secretly) reviving religious life and faith in society. Here in the land of “the spiritual, but not religious,” and growing ...

As Synod Fathers in Rome make their final recommendations to Pope Francis, Jeanette De Melo and Register columnist Father Raymond DeSouza take you on a detailed tour of the Synod and what happens next ...

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

People of all faiths flock to the Centering Prayer Retreat in Saint Leo to deepen their relationship with God. For eight days, they talked to no one but God. Upon waking, during meals, in the evening ...

It’s a quiet -- how could it be anything else? -- but growing trend. About 5,000 people are active in the Christian contemplative prayer movement in Southern California, with more than 80 groups ...

As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed toward what promised to be an inspiring event on the legacy of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating and the Centering Prayer movement, I was anything but ...