Sentences with phrase «contemplative prayer»

Perhaps the most popular of the English mystics today is Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - c. 1413), partly because there are a number of contemplative prayer groups called Julian groups.

Well, can't help but think of the phrase «God is our homeland» from the book I'm reading on contemplative prayer.

In striving to nurture a gentle and quiet spirit, I've learned a lot about contemplative prayer, which is something I would like to continue to practice after the project is over.

The intellectual difficulties that some Christians have with intercessory prayer may partly explain the increased contemporary interest in contemplative prayer or the prayer of silence.

Outside, a handmade rock labyrinth offers a path for contemplative prayer.

It's called contemplative prayer.

Haggerty prescribes contemplative prayer as an antidote to the ills of secular society.

I think that over the years I have grown to value very, very deeply contemplative prayer, the Lectio Divina, meditative prayer, the importance of being in silence in the presence of God.

Haggerty writes, passivity toward God is not primarily a matter of refusing to engage any thoughts that come during prayer, as most contemplative prayer books say.

This approach to beauty affirms its spiritual character by superimposing faith upon sight, silence upon hearing, communion upon tasting, touching and smelling, love upon sense experience and contemplative prayer upon intellectual analysis.

The Contemplative Hunger focuses on hunger for God: «The essential grace behind contemplative prayer is the fusing of an intense longing for God with a deep surrender to him.»

Such solitary, contemplative prayer leaves you naked and expectant, and it necessarily involves risk — which may he why it's more difficult to imagine men participating in it.

So I began incorporating contemplative prayer into my morning routine, particularly breathing exercises, lectio divina, and centered prayer.

Another way of using simple phrases is found within contemplative prayer, an ancient way of resting in God in order to experience him more fully.

Interestingly, he uses the word «nonviolent» to describe mature contemplative prayer in New Seeds of Contemplation (p. 249).

She studied many forms of meditation including contemplative prayer, Quaker, Zen and Insight Meditation.

This desire for union with God and the love of others are the heart of contemplative prayer; particular practices are secondary.

For those interested in learning more about contemplative prayer, Jim Borst, author of Coming to God in the Stillness breaks it down into twelve steps, from silence through to forgiveness and intercession.

There are certain things desirable for contemplative prayer.

My books include Flee, Be Silent, Pray: An Anxious Evangelical Finds Peace with God through Contemplative Prayer, A Christian Survival Guide, and Unfollowers: Unlikely Lessons on Faith from Those Who Doubted Jesus.

The Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of some of those artists, including Alison Hall, whose Book of Beginnings is a small black diptych on panel about the size of a book; and Louis Cameron, whose digitally manipulated photos of clouds evoke the 14th - century Christian mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guidebook on contemplative prayer.

We spent about 10 minutes in contemplative prayer to quiet down in God's presence, while a DJ played ambient tunes in the background.

So solitude, silence and stillness, these contemplative prayer postures, become the corrections to what's out of control in our lives.

Mindfulness has a rich history in the Christian tradition through the ancient practice of contemplative prayer, which dates back to the Desert Fathers and Mothers during the fourth and fifth centuries.

Contemplative prayer is about being with God rather than talking with God.

The second is the huge number of people, particularly elderly people, who spend significant parts of their day in quiet and contemplative prayer, with expressions such as, «I am old, and it's all I can do now.»

Their «Rest in the Bow with Me» provides an unexpected image of contemplative prayer:

The prayer is a beautiful way to end a day of contemplative prayer, with candles flickering on Mary's bronzed face.

11 The Pope suggests that in Christ it is now possible reach a maturity whereby one's interior life is fully attuned to the prompting of the Spirit.12 St John of the Cross, meanwhile, in the Ascent of Mount Carmel teaches us a specific path by which we might attain this inner mastery through self - denial and contemplative prayer.

Though he does not specifically say it, such methods are found in many contemporary books on centering prayer or contemplative prayer that draw on the Desert Fathers as well as sources outside Christianity.

From these he put together a theory of contemplative prayer: That as person becomes increasingly contemplative in his prayer, he will move from «meditation» (thinking about or imagining Our Lord, for example) to a place where meditation, affections, and thinking ceases and are replaced by what seems to be an experience of nothing, but is closer union with God.

Around the field, priests hear confessions - with long lines pf penitents — and in smaller tents talks and workshops are offered on a range of topics: the Holy Spirit, evangelisation, discovering the lives of the saints, contemplative prayer.

Unlike other forms of prayer which are discursive and use words, contemplative prayer, which is also sometimes called centering prayer, tries to discover an inner silence.

There are twelve steps in this particular guide to contemplative prayer, but I often lingered on the first few at the start of the day.

I was sent the reissue of her classic Listening to God (Hodder & Stoughton) and was drawn to the contemplative prayers that she talked about.

Fr Bertram notes that Newman died just before the great rediscovery of «contemplative prayer» in the early twentieth century - the Cardinal owned the works of St John of the Cross but the pages remain uncut.

Some of the most powerful female voices in Christian history — Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisiex — found their inspiration in the quietness of the monastic life and the stillness of contemplative prayer.

Wasting your life is not a good thing, but it's being used in a different way: to describe a life given to contemplative prayer.

By this point I had finally settled into the silence, using some tips I'd learned from the Benedictines about contemplative prayer.

The beatific vision is reached gradually through a life of contemplative prayer.