Weekly Readings Newsletter

Weekly Readings 16/6/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Letting Go,” JOHN MAIN: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS, Modern Spiritual Masters Series (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2002), p. 127.

One of the most difficult things for Westerners to understand is that meditation is not about trying to make anything happen.

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Weekly Readings 9/6/2013

From Laurence Freeman OSB, "Meeting the Other," LIGHT WITHIN: The Inner Path of Meditation (New York: Crossroad, 1989), pp. 65-67

Every relationship of our life, every turning towards another, is an ever-deepening encounter with the Other in whose image we are made.

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Weekly Readings 2/6/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Dearest Friends,” Christian Meditation Newsletter, Vol. 28, No. 2, May 2004, pp. 4-5.

Contemplatives know that the work they are doing in silence and stillness touches and affects the whole person. The wounding division between body and mind is gradually healed and the meaning of resurrection becomes clearer.

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Weekly Readings 26/5/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Dearest Friends” in Christian Meditation Newsletter, Vol. 35, No. 2, July 2011, P. 5.

We are all looking for something. Some have a clear sense of it, at least a conscious awareness of something missing.

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Weekly Readings 19/5/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Dearest Friends,” The World Community for Christian Meditation International Newsletter, June 18, 1999. 

Deep prayer teaches us what the angel of death teaches. When the meditator meets poverty of spirit, it is like an experience of death. Read more »

Weekly Readings 12/5/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Second Conference,” THE GETHSEMANI TALKS (Tucson, AZ: Medio Media, 1999), pp. 35-37.

We must take extreme care about using terms like “self-renunciation.” In prayer we do truly seek to turn our whole being to a contemplation of God’s goodness, of his infinite love.

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Weekly Readings 5/5/2013

From Laurence Freeman OSB, "The Light of the Self," from LIGHT WITHIN: The Inner Path of Meditation (New York: Crossroad, 1989), pp. 85-87.

Meditation exposes . . . a hard and essential truth [ . . .] :  if we cannot communicate our real self to others it is because we haven't yet made contact with it ourselves.

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Weekly Readings 28/4/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “From Isolation to Love,” THE WAY OF UNKNOWING (New York: Crossroad, 1990), pp. 44-46. 

We meditate because we know with absolute certainty that we must pass through and beyond our own sterility. We must transcend the sterility of the closed system, of a purely introspective mind.

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Weekly Readings 21/4/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Dearest Friends,” Christian Meditation Newsletter, Vol 35, #2, July 2011, pp. 4-5. 

Global media wallpapers our life with the problems of the world in which we are meant to see our own issues reflected.

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Weekly Readings 14/4/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Commitment to Simplicity,” MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 26-27.

You have heard it said that meditation is “the way to reality.” It is firstly the way to the reality of our own being. By meditation, we learn to be.

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