Meditating on the Cross
Meditating on the Cross The logo for the Center for Action and Completion is an oval framing two intersecting arrows forming the cross of Christ, shows a collision of opposites. One ...
Gaze of Grace
Gaze of Grace Invite a trusted beloved (friend, lover, parent, or perhaps yourself through a mirror) to spend a few minutes sharing each other’s gaze. Sit facing each other and begin ...
Patience
Patience Although the transition from first half to second half of life can begin in a moment, it takes a lifetime to practice living consistently from this wider, non-dual awareness. Even ...
Drawing Empty Space
Drawing Empty Space It’s difficult to see what is not yet manifest, to imagine there may be more to life when we’re stuck in the first half of life with its ...
Litany of the Holy Spirit
Litany of the Holy Spirit When we come to the end of our rope and hit rock bottom, we are not dashed but fall into God’s hands. It is here at ...
Letting Go and Letting God
Letting Go and Letting God Contemplative practice is an exercise in humility. We come face to face with our inability to control our thoughts, emotions, and bodies. With practice over time, ...
Vagus nerve stimulation
Vagus nerve stimulation: Role of Yoga and Meditation in strengthening Cranial nerve, enhancing immunity Kirti Pandey Many psychologists, neuroscientists, & integrative health experts say that there are various ways we can ...
Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage Though initiation was forgotten in the West for a long time, more and more people are rediscovering its power as a catalyst to help us pass from life ...
Yes
Yes All prayer is seconding the motion. God is the initial motion, the initiative. In contemplation, we become aware of God’s movement and surrender to it. We begin with “yes,” ready ...
Love’s Reconciliation and Transformation
Love’s Reconciliation and Transformation Each week we offer an invitation to contemplative practice, though I hope you’re finding quiet, contemplative moments every day. There are many different ways to meditate or ...
Agape Feast
Agape Feast The early Christians shared agape (love) feasts in their small communities. Somehow eating together creates a space where we can be vulnerable and present. By sharing our food, or by coming ...
Concrete Participation
Concrete Participation As we turn toward participation we now can see that most of religious and church history has been largely preoccupied with religious ideas, about which you could be wrong ...
The YHWH Prayer
The YHWH Prayer A rabbi taught this prayer to Richard Rohr many years ago. He writes about it in the second chapter of his book The Naked Now. The Jews did not ...
Prayer of Quiet
Prayer of Quiet I believe it’s especially important for those of us who are comfortable and privileged—whether we are white, financially secure, male, or have some other social “advantage”—to nurture a ...
Self-Emptying
Self-Emptying Make my joy complete by being of a single mind, one in love, one in heart and one in mind. Nothing is to be done out of jealousy or vanity; ...
