Bringing together contemplatives to pray in silent community offers not only encouragement to individuals but fosters the ...

Wreath of Christ Wednesdays Zion Lutheran Church in Hollidaysburg offers a short, contemplative prayer service complete with ...

If drivers look closely, they'll see park benches sitting north of the State Route 161 in Licking County. Here's the story ...

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Mondays Mass: presented by Mill Valley's Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church at 7:45 a.m. in person at 3 Oakdale Ave. in Mill Valley and by Facebook livestream at facebook.com/mountcarmelmv and ...

Freedom doesn’t “have a birthday” for some people and not for others. But freedom is our birthday, an expression of the ...

Living a hidden life of contemplative prayer, they nonetheless have a profound impact on the people of Zimbabwe. A ministry of prayer The Poor Clare Sisters are a congregation of religious women ...

What is meditation, and how do you begin to do it? St. Francis de Sales wrote a wonderful little book called Introduction to ...

We live in a world that constantly demands perfection, and that can also mean in our spiritual life. But what if it is ok to ...

4 Thus vocal prayer becomes an initial form of contemplative prayer. Examples of vocal prayer include basic prayers such as the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, etc. and also the words in the ...

• " Contemplative prayer is the simple expression of the mystery of prayer. It is a gaze of faith fixed on Jesus, an attentiveness to the Word of God, a silent love.