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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: Fr Laurence recently visited several schools in Townsville, Australia where meditation is practised daily. His last visit was to a Year 12 class at Ignatius Park College (above). See a photo gallery of the visit to Australia here.
Laurence Freeman

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New Book: A Child's Way

This book written by Jeannie Battagin is designed to provide inspiration, support and specific resources for creating and sustaining the practice of Christian Meditation among children, from first grade through to the eighth grade. Her spiritual journey and specifically practice of Christian Meditation has been influenced by an inner calling to teach children this form of prayer. This book is particularly useful for teachers, parents and grandparents who feel the call to teach Christian Meditation to children.

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Meditatio Podcast 14/05/2012

Submitted by leonardo_correa on Wed, 2012-04-18 18:17

Letting go - A Weekend Retreat

Facilitated by May Nicol, Linda Kaye and Terry Doyle
 

Friday 4 May – Sunday 6 May 2012

The Kairos Centre, Mount Angelus Road, Roehampton, London SW15 4JA

During this retreat, we will explore how Step 11
and the practice of meditation can assist us in the
process of letting go so that we can ‘Let Go and
Let God’.

In the silence and the stillness, we learn how to let
go of thoughts, desires and expectations and to
open our hearts to God's ‘grace, wisdom and love’.

Download HERE the Leaflet

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2012 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL RETREAT

Led by Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB

with Gene Bebeau, USA National Coordinator

Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center
West Hartford Connecticut, USA

Saturday May 26 – Saturday June 2, 2012

Download HERE the Flier

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SALVATION OR ENLIGHTENMENT?

A Day of Dialogue

with Tibetan Buddhist, Dr Alan Wallace and
Bendictine monk, Fr Laurence Freeman

Thursday 21 June 2012—10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Westminster Cathedral hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London

Are Salvation and Enlightenment the same? If so, at what level do - or can - different traditions achieve sameness? From their common ground of friendship formed over many years, Alan and Laurence will lead an exploration of these important issues. Vital as these questions are to good dialogue and mutual understanding, both agree it is in the practice of meditation that the real answers are experienced. The day will therefore include both their talks and discussions, questions from the participants and times of meditation.

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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.

Official Website

For further info and registrations download the PDF Flyer HERE

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Meditators' Blog 18/4/2012

OLD IDEAS by Leonard Cohen - by Jim Green

Leonard Cohen is fast becoming the unofficial patron saint of our meditation community. The credentials are impeccable: a Jewish, sometime Zen Buddhist monk with a strange and intimate take on the Saviour – remember this from 1967?

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. Read more »

Silence in the City with subtitles in seven languages

Probably mostly people already know the video Silence in the City - Young Christian Meditators' Stories (A short film about Christian Meditation by Claire Morgan, from Australia).

So, the good news about it is that we have been able to subtitled the video in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. We are very grateful with all volunteers that have been collaborating.


 

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Read the Latest Weekly Teachings

What are Our Demons?

We looked at Evagrius’ division of the spiritual life into the ‘praxis’ and ‘theoria’. Let us concentrate for a moment longer on ‘Praxis’. We must not forget that our spiritual growth depends both on grace and effort. Grace was paramount for Evagrius , but effort was also important.

Read the Latest Weekly Readings

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Self-Will and Divine-Will,” MONASTERY WITHOUT WALLS: The Spiritual Letters of John Main (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006) pp. 195-96.

St Paul tells us that there is a light shining in our hearts. St John tells us that this light is the point of divine consciousness, of infinitely pure love, to be fond and worshipped in every person—the light that enlightens everyone who comes into this world.

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