St. John the Evangelist, 2640 Park Drive: Workshop on What is Contemplative Prayer? from 9 a.m. to noon July 22. The Rev. Jeremy Froyen and Timothy and Karen Pedigo will lead the workshop, which will ...

Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

"Centering prayer is not something new," Keating tells interviewer Tom Fox. "It is simply an effort to update the apophatic contemplative tradition coming down from Gregory of Nyssa and The Cloud [of ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to embrace the contemplative dimension of being human both in prayer and their daily lives. In his general audience address on May 5, the pope said that the ...

These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

Long ago, Daniel Berrigan told me a tragic story about being invited to speak to a packed church of cloistered nuns somewhere on the East Coast in 1965. They wanted him to read from his latest book of ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

For Jerome Kodell, the practice of silent prayer has enriched his life. Some call it contemplative prayer -- a way of seeking a deeper relationship with God through stillness and silence. As abbot of ...

Christian contemplative prayer will be taught in Birmingham on March 21, 2015, in a seminar organized by by Centering Prayer Alabama. (Eric Schultz/ESchultz@AL.com) A day of "Finding Peace through ...

“Bless our families, bless our children. Choose from our homes those needed for your work.” I knelt with my family at the Vigil of All Saints and prayed the Archdiocesan Prayer for Vocations of the ...

October marks the end of the Discalced Carmelite Order’s celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Ávila. St. Teresa is a doctor of the Church and one of history’s greatest ...