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    communities, they lived lives of austere simplicity oriented towards contemplative prayer. These communities formed the basis for what later would become known...
    153 KB (18,582 words) - 06:30, 23 October 2024
  • separation from God or lack of spiritual feeling, especially during contemplative prayer. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) describes spiritual dryness...
    3 KB (354 words) - 12:54, 30 September 2024
  • Centering prayer is a form of Christian contemplative prayer, to center awareness on the presence of God. This modern movement in Christianity was initiated...
    19 KB (1,966 words) - 20:47, 20 October 2024
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    linkages (along with the breathing and the hands) for the practice of contemplative prayer. Language of Jesus § Maranatha (Μαραναθά) "Didache. The Teaching...
    5 KB (582 words) - 00:36, 15 August 2024
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    Cistercian order. Bernard also emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in contemplative prayer and compared it to a kiss by the Eternal Father which allows a union...
    55 KB (6,609 words) - 03:37, 3 September 2024
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    'live without sin'. In mystical practice, it is to be followed-up by contemplative prayer. Mental prayer is a form of prayer "performed without aid of any...
    12 KB (1,426 words) - 13:22, 2 May 2024
  • practices and states, as induced by contemplative practices such as contemplative prayer, called theoria from the Greek for contemplation. It can be contrasted...
    34 KB (4,442 words) - 15:07, 22 October 2024
  • teacher and a principal developer of centering prayer, a method of contemplative prayer. Meninger was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He was raised and educated...
    5 KB (446 words) - 01:10, 11 October 2024
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    latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know...
    28 KB (3,675 words) - 10:35, 25 October 2024
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    principal developers of centering prayer, a contemporary method of contemplative prayer that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in 1975. William Meninger and...
    10 KB (1,186 words) - 09:38, 21 October 2024
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    literature and influenced the rediscovery of hesychasm, a method of contemplative prayer from the Byzantine period. He is most famous for his work with Macarius...
    7 KB (722 words) - 20:09, 22 October 2024
  • programs are classes or practices (which includes meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer or similar) that are offered at correctional institutions for inmates...
    17 KB (1,997 words) - 14:09, 9 September 2024
  • in which he emphasized the importance of renewed conversion and contemplative prayer, and he traveled worldwide to teach at parishes, seminaries, and...
    9 KB (931 words) - 22:39, 16 January 2024
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    from this practice and refers to stages of Christian meditation contemplative prayer based on the reading of the Bible. However, lectio divina does not...
    2 KB (251 words) - 23:13, 12 July 2022
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    and Lutheran churches. It is also used in liturgy and as a form of contemplative prayer. The Agnus Dei also forms a part of the musical setting for the Mass...
    26 KB (3,064 words) - 20:38, 22 October 2024
  • community in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, thus bringing this form of contemplative prayer to Canada. The Canadian Community's national office is located in...
    4 KB (494 words) - 09:40, 9 June 2023
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    specifically to the catholic devotion of the Holy Rosary as "an exquisitely contemplative prayer" and said that "By its nature the recitation of the Rosary calls...
    15 KB (1,855 words) - 01:19, 5 September 2024
  • Julian Meetings is a loose umbrella organisation for local Christian contemplative prayer groups which meet in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking...
    6 KB (581 words) - 08:41, 26 January 2024
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    vocal prayer, but is more structured than the multiple layers of contemplative prayer. Teachings in both the Eastern and Western Christian churches have...
    47 KB (6,271 words) - 12:03, 25 October 2024
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    Theoria is obtained according to Eastern Orthodox theology by way of contemplative prayer called hesychasm and is the vision of God as the uncreated light...
    94 KB (11,978 words) - 17:50, 16 July 2024
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