Reading the Mystics
Come reflect on the work of Christian Mystics in our worship space.
Summer Dates the Mystics will NOT meet: June 15, June 29, and July 6
*Centering Prayer will still meet at 5pm on all of these dates except July 6.
“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.’” -James Finley
Quick Guide
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Please note the Mondays that the Mystics Reading Group will NOT meet.
*Centering Prayer will still meet at 5pm on these dates (except July 6)
Monday, June 8
Monday, June 15
Monday, June 29
Monday, July 6 (no Centering Prayer)
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“The soul is like a castle made exclusively of diamond or some other very clear crystal. In this castle there are a multitude (7) of dwellings, just as in heaven there are many mansions.”
Thus begins St. Teresa of Avila’s masterpiece, The Interior Castle, in which she draws a narrative map of the territory of your own soul.
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Meet our Mystics
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St. Teresa of Avila
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Thomas Kelly
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Meister Eckhart
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Walking through Advent with the Mystics
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The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counsel
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The Best of the Female Mystics Series
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Brother Lawrence
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Julian of Norwich
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Thomas Keating
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Etty Hillesum
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St. John of the Cross
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Thomas Merton
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Meister Eckhart
Read Father Hendree’s Blog, Consider This…
What is a Mystic?
This is the way Frederick Buechner describes the mystics, “There must be a God because every age and culture has produced mystics who have experienced a Reality beyond reality and have come back using different words and images but obviously and without collusion describing with awed adoration the same Indescribability.”
James Finley writes, “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.”
Weekly Schedule
Notes:
If you would like to just come for Centering Prayer or just come for the Mystics, you are more than welcome to come and go as you please.
Whether its your first time or fifty-first, All are Welcome!
You do not need to have read up to a certain point in the book… you can just jump on in!
5:00pm
Gather for brief Centering Prayer Instruction
5:10pm
Centering Prayer Sit
5:30pm
Introduction, Reading, and Discussion
7:00pm
Conclude