Contemplation

“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

Good Shepherd's Contemplative Practices

  • Centering Prayer

    We offer 3 Centering Prayer Sits:

    Monday│ 5pm

    Thursday│ 7:30am

    Thursday│ 7:55am

    The Monday session will start with a short teaching on silent prayer, then we will do a sit together.

  • Reading the Mystics

    The Mystics is currently on a 2-week break. We will begin meeting again on August 4. Click the button below to view the schedule.

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    The Mystics Reading group meets on Monday evenings at 5:30pm.

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    “The mystic is not somebody who says, “Look what I’ve experienced. Look what I’ve achieved.” The mystic is the one who says, “Look what love has done to me.” . . .  There’s nothing left, but the being of love itself giving itself away as . . . the concreteness of who you simply are.

    -James Finley

  • Rector's Bible Study

    Rector’s Applied Bible Study is on a 1-week break. We will return on July 30 and continue reading the First Letter of Timothy.

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    On Wednesday mornings at 7:30am, we dive into the bible stories and look for ways that we can use what we find in our own real-life stories. We open with a few minutes of meditation, so this is a great place to learn about contemplative practice. Why “Applied”?  Our aim is to Apply the fruits of our study to our actual, everyday lives.

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    We are reading the First Letter of Timothy. Click the button below to learn more and see the schedule.

“Contemplation is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source.”

-From ‘New Seeds of Contemplation’ by Thomas Merton

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