September e-bullitin

October 2, 2025/in Events/by Peter Donnelly

“Prayer and activity are not enemies. We ascend the ladder of consciousness beyond rational consciousness to intuitive and unitive levels, and then, when they become stabilized, action and contemplation become the same thing because God is present in everything. You see God in everything, and you see God intentionally working with circumstances outside of you and inside of you to teach you something new.”

Thomas Keating, God is All in All: The Evolution of the Contemplative Christian Spiritual Journey

The 2025 July issue of CO NEWS is available online here, along with a full archive of previous issues.

You’ll find these articles:

Telephone Conversations Between Thomas Keating & Isabel Castellanos, April 7, 2015 – October 31, 2018
Zen in a Christian Monastery – Fertile Ground, Open Mind, by Ron Barnett pg 7
Letters from Thomas Keating – correspondence shared by Nancy Cord-Baran pg 9
The First Consent: Our Basic Core of Goodness, by a practitioner of the prayer currently experiencing incarceration in California pg 10
Trusting in the Slow Work of God, by Patricia Hutchinson pg 11
Eyes of Faith, by Walter Martinez, pg 13
Resources & more pg 14

For the complete e-bulletin go to https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2025-sept-e-bulletin?e=9aa0837e74

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