“Centering Prayer is not done with attention but with intention”.
Centering Prayer emphasizes interior silence and prayer as a personal relationship with God and as “a movement beyond conversation with Christ to communion with Christ.” Its roots are found in the contemplative prayer of the Desert Fathers of early Christian monasticism, in the Lectio Divina tradition, and in Christian mystical works like The Cloud of Unknowing and the writings of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross.
Episcopal priest, modern day mystic and internationally acclaimed retreat leader, Dr Cynthia Bourgeault, has worked closely with Fr. Thomas Keating, the American Trappist monk who founded the Centering Prayer method, for nearly 25 years.
Click here to access her engaging 30-minute introduction to this simple (if not always easy) practice: