  Peace & All Good! Jan 22, 2008  "Live your ordinary life with compassionate love and utmost charity." ~Fr. Thomas Keating OCSO. Dear Friends, I cordially receive you. Please be at ease and be blessed! I am a Roman Catholic, a lady of faithfulness in my relationship with God, a proclaimer of the Word and practicing Centering Prayer-- unrelenting in deepening and strengthening my faith. The CENTERING PRAYER Movement in the Catholic Church began subsequent to Vatican II, which fostered a renewed concern in the early Contemplative Prayer practices. Three Trappist monks, William Meninger, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating, responded by seeking to build up a reachable discipline for the present-day Church. It followed, birthed in the light of the old monastic practice of Lectio Divina, the prayer disciplines outlined in the fourteenth century classic "The Cloud of Unknowing", and the writings of Christian mystics like Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis de Sales, John Cassian, Therese of Lisieux and Thomas Merton. CENTERING PRAYER is considered an answer to the Sermon on the Mount: "...when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, Who sees in secret, will repay you."(Mt6:6) I realize CENTERING PRAYER to be an important part of my daily prayer practice. To know more about it, visit: http://cophil.org The postings I share here are what help me too in my spiritual journey, which I love to share with everyone who comes here. Blessings & Love in Jesus, Angie M.    GOD'S WORD May 11, 2012 6th Sunday of Easter Cycle B - 2012
Acts of the Apostles 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and, falling at his feet, paid him homage. Peter, however, raised him up, saying, “Get up. I myself am also a human being.” Then Peter proceeded to... more  COMMENTARY Spiritual Practice #15 Before I was twenty I never worried about what other people thought of me. But after I was twenty I worried endlessly— about all the impressions I made and how people were evaluating me. Only sometime after turning fifty did I realize that... more
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