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Evening Prayer
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Evening Prayer

Allow yourself to be ‘still’ for a moment, a minute or longer. Open your hands on your lap. Receive this time as rest.

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Spiritual exercise: Centering Prayer
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Spiritual exercise: Centering Prayer

“To share Centering Prayer with others is a preeminent way to fulfill our Christian mission “we are created in the image and likeness of God” and to open out to our brothers and sisters the Way, the Truth, and the Life; that is, the Good News.” (165) by M. Basil Pennington

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Spiritual exercise: Prayer
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Spiritual exercise: Prayer

Radiance

Jeremiah 31:12

Visio Divina (meaning divine vision, seeing with the eyes of your heart): The movement of this prayer uses a visual to help guide and set our minds on prayer thus allowing God to speak into our hearts through the image. Invitation. Find a quiet and comfortable place to be still with God…

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Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study
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Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study

This month I invite you to join me in the Scriptures with an open heart to what God longs to reveal to us.

This is a suggestion of a slow reading, prayerful and responsive study for God to form, renew, and transform our hearts and living…

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