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Meditation, in the Christian tradition - contemplation, the prayer of the Heart - is forming a world wide community.

Our website welcomes you to this community. You can learn here about the tradition, how to meditate, how to find a local weekly group, where to go on a Christian meditation retreat, browse our audio and video channels, get books, DVDs, and weekly resources.

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Above: Meditation is a journey beyond our familiar horizons. No better image evokes the mystery of God than the ocean where the boundary of our perception is constantly being pushed further as we ourselves expand beyond our limitations. "To seek God is to find God. But to find God is to be constantly seeking Him".

Laurence Freeman

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Bere Island Easter Retreat 2012

Sat 31st March - Sun 8th April
For Younger Meditators (45 and under)

Join us for a meditation retreat with Fr Laurence Freeman OSB and explore the mysteries of Easter. The Bere Island Easter Retreat will be an interior pilgrimage of the Easter mysteries as they unfold in Holy Week.

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John Main Talks

Over several years John Main gave regular weekly talks to meditation groups meeting at his monastery.(They are presently being re-edited and will be issued in a new enhanced edition later this year, to mark the 20th anniversary of the formation of the World Community he inspired.) Each talk is a direct preparation for meditation as well as a strikingly insightful reflection on an aspect of the inner pilgrimage. They communicate not only ideas but the authentic silence itself. So, the listener is led by words into silence.

Click HERE to see the full page with the talk player.

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The John Main Seminar 2012 - Spirituality and Environment

The John Main Seminar is an annual event designed to broaden & deepen the teaching of Christian Meditation. It brings together meditators from around the world & those wishing to discover the practice.
 

Pre-Seminar Retreat

Be Who You are

Led by Fr Laurence Freeman OSB / 13th-16th august


The Christian understanding of Jesus as the Word made flesh transforms the way we see our own humanity and also the natural world we are part of. "Nothing that is not against nature is against Christ" (Clement of Alexandria) - this liberating insight has to be more courageously embraced in our own time so that the mystery of Christ can become fully transformative. But this is not only a theological project. It begins - and finds its culmination - at the deeply personal level of experience. And this is why meditation in our own tradition is such a blessing and necessity - it opens us to the mystery of the inner Christ and to the cosmic Christ simultaneously. Our daily meditation leads us to self-knowledge and also gives us new words with which to understand and communicat the Word itself.

 

For further info and registrations download the PDF Flyer HERE

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Meditators' Blog 3/1/2012

BEYOND OBEDIENCE from a letter to a Novice preparing for final Oblation - by Jim Green

A few more thoughts on Obedience. I'm not sure that they will amount to a coherent apologia, but we have to leave something for faith and hope to do, don't...

New Book: Journey to the Heart

JOURNEY TO THE HEART

Christian Contemplation Throughout the Centuries - an illustrated guide

Edited by Kim Nataraja

Published by Canterbury Press in the UK, Orbis in the US and Novalis in Canada November 2011.

At a time when there is often a bewildered superficiality in the spiritual marketplace, this book will be a help and longterm friend for many seekers of all traditions as well as those without a named path.

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Bede Griffiths - Meditation and Community: The New Creation in Christ

In 1991 Bede Griffiths OSB led the John Main Seminar in New Harmony, Indiana. He chose to speak about John Main's thought on meditation and community and developed it in his mystical understanding of Christ. It was during this Seminar that The World Community for Christian Meditation was formed. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of this event the film of Fr Bede's talks are re-issued. They form the substance of his book The New Creation in Christ

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Read the Latest Weekly Teachings

The Christian Meditation Group Leader

The qualities of a group leader:

- A personal commitment to meditation as taught in the Christian Meditation Community

- The wish to share this gift with others.

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An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Second Conference,” THE GETHSEMANI TALKS (Tucson, AZ: Medio Media, 2000),  pp.37-39.

Meditation is the prayer of faith because we are willing to follow the Teacher’s command: we are willing to lose our lives so that we may realize fully our potential.
And when we have found our true Self, our task is only beginning.

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