John Main's Legacy....

Meditation & Meditation Groups...

Many people believe that John Main's greatest legacy was his rediscovery of the practice of pure prayer, or Christian meditation, as the birthright of all believers, not just for those in monasteries and convents. In 1975, John Main began the first weekly meditation groups at his monastery in London and then in Montreal. Now, countless meditators and hundreds of weekly meditation groups around the world carry on the tradition and spread the teaching in various ways. To get informatrion about groups meeting in your area, go to the map on our Home page and click on where you live.

View an online slideshow of John Main's family and boyhood days, his student years, army service, religious training, and as a monk and teacher here.

Besides the information found on these pages, you may read more about starting and leading a weekly group in Laurence Freeman's book, The Pearl of Great Price, available from www.MedioMedia.org.

Read "A New Look at the Vital Role of the Christian Meditation Group" by Paul Harris.

Read "John Main: The Monk, The Teacher and the Teaching" by Paul Harris.

Read "Two Articles on the Format and the Importance of the Weekly Meditation Group" by Paul Harris.

Read about weekly meditation groups meeting around the world here. We invite meditation group leaders to visit the page and submit their own reflections on the importance of the meditation group.

Read....

"John Main's Monastic Adventure" by Laurence Freeman OSB

"John Main, Trinitarian Mystic" by François C. Gerard

"From John Cassian to John Main" by Adelbert de Vogué

"John Main and the New Testament" by Gertrude McLaughlin

"Monastics in the World" by Laurence Freeman, OSB

"Main House" by Milo Coerper

"Oblates in Western Monasticism" by Derek G. Smith