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Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer
Apoetic and accessible introduction to the method of Centering Prayer, this guide explains its origins, theological basis, and psychology by drawing on the writings of important Catholic figures, such as St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, and significant texts, such as The Cloud of Unknowing. Describing the theological basis for the Centering Prayer while stayi...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by The Crossroad Publishing Company
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I read this book and immediately tuned to page one and read it again. Donald Miller, if he were a Catholic monastic, could have written Chapter 2, Attitudes Toward God.
"[O]ur spiritual journey may be blocked if we carry negative attitudes toward God from early childhood." Page 22.
"Human nature prefers to offer substitute sacrifices to placate God rather than to offer the sacrifice that God clearly states in Scripture is the only acceptable one, which is the gift of ou...more
"[O]ur spiritual journey may be blocked if we carry negative attitudes toward God from early childhood." Page 22.
"Human nature prefers to offer substitute sacrifices to placate God rather than to offer the sacrifice that God clearly states in Scripture is the only acceptable one, which is the gift of ou...more
This book was recommended to me by a monk in his eighties in a meeting of spiritual direction with me. I had been feeling very attracted to the practice of Zen meditation for its focus on the present moment, breathing, and acceptance of change, pain, emotional ups and downs, etc. I had felt that my prayer life was getting too cluttered with words. I had enjoyed for quite some time praying various forms of the hours, but often felt that I was just rushing through them because there was too muc...more
Let me just say if I were to pass this book in a bookstore I wouldn't give it a second thought. While looking at its mystical cover, and the Buddhist looking author on the back cover, I'd immediately assume it was some sort of new-age meditative read. While some may go for that, I myself would have passed it right up.
However, regardless of the cover, I was told to read this book to get a deeper insight on Contemplative Prayer. Although I had a few issues with the book (like the Ho...more
However, regardless of the cover, I was told to read this book to get a deeper insight on Contemplative Prayer. Although I had a few issues with the book (like the Ho...more
The earlier parts of this boo were pretty challenging for the lay mind, but as I stuck with it the later began to make sense. We read it as a group, and half the group gave up. But those of us who finished it felt the same way about the later chapters. Worth the challenge.
Helped me learn how to pray in a new way.
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Keating entered the Cistercian Order in Valley Falls, Rhode Island in January, 1944. He was appointed Superior of St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado in 1958, and was elected abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusetts in 1961. He returned to Snowmass after retiring as abbot of Spencer in 1981, where he established a program of ten-day intensive retreats in the practice of Centeri...more
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