August e-bulletin
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July e-bulletin
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January e-bulletin
“Live that prayer, let it live you … so that your deepest purpose in life is more accessible to you in every breath, in every movement, and in every ordinary failure and forgetting. I constantly forget my heart intention practice, but the grace and the beauty and the gift of it is that I can always come back. I can always let the prayer come back to me. ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Son of God, amen.’ I can always let a new discovery arise in me of the oneness and the love that unites all of created life beneath it, all the turmoil and the politicization and the conflict. Life is radiating love in being. That can come back to me out of the gift of oneness in an encounter with another person. And I can always let the mantra, the resonant energy of life resound in my heart, in my mind, ‘Yeshua Maranatha Hesed Amen‘.”
– David Frenette
excerpted from a self-guided e-course about the Heart Intention practice
Q: Our group has been doing a contemplative walk before meetings.
Do you have any information about this practice?
A: Read Leslee’s response here.
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You can read the complete e-bulletin at https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2024-january-e-bulletin?e=9aa0837e74
December e-bulletin
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16th Dec. Contemplative Outreach Dublin Advent Reflection Day
Contemplative Outreach Dublin Advent Reflection Day
Date: Saturday 16th December
Time :9.30 am – 3.00pm
Venue : Avila Carmelite Centre, Bloomfield Avenue, Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 Avila have parking facilities. The centre is served by the following bus routes 39A (Blanchardstown to UCD), 46A (Phoenix Park to Dun Laoghaire) and 145 (Heuston Station to Kilmacanogue) buses
Structure of the Day
9.30-10.00 – Tea, Coffee, and time for greeting one another
10.00 am – Centering Prayer
10.30 am – Presentation 1
Denis Gleeson cfc – Theme of Peace
12.00 – Participants are welcome to join in with the Carmelite Community for the celebration of the Eucharist.
12.30: Lunch – Tea and Coffee are provided at lunch time but participants will need to bring their own lunch
13.30: Presentation 2
Ann O’Reilly “Exploring our Yes to life in the spirit of Arnaud Desjardins”.
Arnaud Desjardins (1925-2011) was a French film director and author who travelled to India and Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s, making television documentaries about spiritual traditions not well known to many Europeans at the time, including Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism. He was a deep seeker who brought the wisdom of India back to France and began a lifetime of teaching that helped to open and heal many, many people. He opened his first Ashram in France in 1985.
2.30: Centering Prayer
There is a fee of €20.00 per participant to cover costs. This can be paid by cash or by cheque made out to Fionnuala Quinn. We will not have any facility to accept card payments. If you prefer to pay by bank transfer in advance please let me know.
All are welcome. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to anaoreilly13@gmail.com to reserve your place.
November e-bulletin
Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart, Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings
Christ was placed in the full human condition that we experience without being able to do much about it. It is an extraordinary expression of love. In other words, when you join me in descending into hell, you help release the prisoners of the consequences of their unevolved situation. Just as the immune cells heal the diseased cells that are there, so to be a living cell in the Body of Christ is to have the same disposition of total self-giving or self-surrender, including the willingness to suffer our slice of the human condition for the love of God and the healing of humanity.
We are accountable to everybody else. What you do, I do. What you are doing, your virtue, I can claim. I can also burden you with my vices. Everything is in common.
Thomas Keating, “Redemption,” God is All in All
Special Event
A free event with meditation sponsored by
World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM)
November 26, 2023, via Zoom
3:00pm – 5:00pm CET (UTC +1), 9am EST (UTC -5)
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Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB, says this about the event: “The news and images of human pain created by inhumanity in Gaza and Ukraine understandably outrage, sicken and depress us. But, like the illness of one body when it is undergone in community, the ordeal of these two places – and so many others – can illuminate the One Body we belong to. That becomes the source of hope and of our hunger and thirst for justice and peace.
“Because of the mystery of oneness revealed in suffering, please join me on online on Sunday 26 November. [We] will convene a community of love in solidarity with those desperately struggling in Ukraine and Gaza and also in extreme loneliness on the streets of our cities, in hospitals and prisons. May we celebrate the healing that comes when we see the grace of oneness revealed.”
For more information on the schedule and to register, go here.
You can read this months bulletin at https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2023-nov-e-bulletin?e=9aa0837e74
October e-bulletin
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Workshop. Do you seek the still,quiet voice of God.
Do you seek the still,quiet voice of God.
This workshop will help us to understand the Presence of God within each of us
and our intimate relationship with that Presence.
A simple meditation practice known as Centering Prayer will be introduced as a method
to help us “rest in God”
We will experience two periods of Centering Prayer practice during the day,
and also explore the benefits of Centering Prayer in ordinary life.
All are welcome to attend – those new to Centering Prayer and those re-viewing
the method.
The program will be presented in:
The Cherith Pastoral Center, Church of St Columbanus,
Loughlinstown
by Finbarr O’Leary and Conor Crowley;
Commissioned Presenters of Centering Prayer
Saturday September 30th
10am-2.30pm
OR
Saturday October 7th
10am – 2.30pm
(Please bring your own lunch – Tea/Coffee will be available)
Cost €20 per person
To book a place, please contact Teresa in the Parish Office
(Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 8.30am-2pm
Tel. 012824085
Email: parishofloughlinstown@gmail.com
Contemplative Outreach Dublin
2023 July E-bulletin
“One advantage that Centering Prayer offers is that it establishes the letting go of self, the total sacrifice of ourselves, as the orientation and direction that grows along with our relationship with God. But, sacrifice in this world is not like it is in Heaven. It can be very difficult, very painful, even unbearable at times. All kinds of difficulties can arise, both socially and emotionally, and spiritually. Faith believes that whatever happens in the present moment is God’s will, and the only thing God can will is what is for our greatest good. By letting go of our doubts and turning them over to God, the presence of God begins to grow even in the midst of activity and adversity.”
Thomas Keating
“The Present Moment and All That Is”
That We May Be One: Christian Non-Duality
Q: Can I practice Centering Prayer as my main prayer (morning and afternoon) and during the day practice the Jesus prayer? Am I using two practices with different meanings and therefore leading my spiritual path in two directions? I also do Welcoming Prayer during the day. Should I choose between the Welcoming Prayer and the Jesus prayer?
A: Read Leslee’s response here.
You can read the complete bulletin at https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2023-july-e-bulletin?e=9aa0837e74
June e-bulletin
Nicholas Roerich, Behest of the Sky, 1915
“Suppose you’re in mythic membership consciousness and totally absorbed in your particular belief system. Remember belief systems are the effort of people who haven’t had the experience to explain the founder’s experience of the Ultimate Reality. Most religions begin by some gigantic experience of someone or some group of people and then after a generation the others—the disciples or the students—try to put it in writing in order to preserve it. Actually, they’re at high risk of ruining it because they’ll put down their perspective of the experience which is likely to be not quite the same as the person who had it first. But that doesn’t mean that religion doesn’t continue to evolve, but it has limitations. So to treat it as the last word on every subject is to misunderstand its purpose …
Thomas Keating
Gifts for Living video excerpt
Q: I’m a practitioner of “A Course in Miracles” and other non-religious pathways. Can I or anyone that is not a traditional Christian practice Centering Prayer? Is Centering Prayer for anyone who has a sincere desire to find God regardless of their tradition or non-tradition?
A: Read Lindsay’s response here. 
You can read the complete bulletin at https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2023-june-e-bulletin?e=9aa0837e74