Contemplation
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Good Shepherd's Contemplative Practices
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Centering Prayer
We offer 3 Centering Prayer Sits:
Monday│ 5pm
Thursday│ 7:30am
Thursday│ 7:55am
The Monday session will start with a short teaching on silent prayer, then we will do a sit together.
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Reading the Mystics
The Mystics Reading group meets on Monday evenings at 5:30pm.
Current Mystic Study: Etty Hillesum
"An Interrupted Life"
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“The mystic is not somebody who says, “Look what I’ve experienced. Look what I’ve achieved.” The mystic is the one who says, “Look what love has done to me.” . . . There’s nothing left, but the being of love itself giving itself away as . . . the concreteness of who you simply are.”
-James Finley
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Rector's Bible Study
On Wednesday mornings at 7:30am, we dive into the bible stories and look for ways that we can use what we find in our own real-life stories. We open with a few minutes of meditation, so this is a great place to learn about contemplative practice. Why “Applied”? Our aim is to Apply the fruits of our study to our actual, everyday lives.
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We are currently studying the Gospel of Mark.
Silent Retreat
Saturday, November 9
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On Saturday, November 9 and we are going to have an all day Silent Retreat at Good Shepherd. The day will begin with a welcome and an opening teaching by the Reverend Tom Ward who will co-lead the retreat with Fr. Hendree.
the retreat is broken up in four movements: Morning, lunch time, afternoon, and late afternoon. You may come to one, two, three or all four of the movements.
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Right here at Good Shepherd in the worship space.
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This is a great retreat opportunity for people who have never experienced a silent retreat to do so without leaving town. It is also a wonderful chance for people who have a meditation practice to get a retreat experience right here at home in the midst of the busyness of life.
“Contemplation is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source.”
-From ‘New Seeds of Contemplation’ by Thomas Merton