Reading the Mystics
Come reflect on the work of Christian Mystics in our worship space.
“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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We will begin reading ‘The Cloud of the Unknown’ on September 22nd.
This series will be available via ZOOM
CLICK HERE to learn more about the Anonymous author of ‘The Cloud of Unknowing.’
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Our current mystic will be the Anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing.
The Cloud of Unknowing is a 14th century English mystical text that serves as the source of the Centering Prayer Method of Christian mediation.
We will use Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s translation published by Shambhala Publications in 2009.
All are welcome!
Meet our Mystics
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The Cloud of Unknowing
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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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St. Teresa of Avila
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Meister Eckhart
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