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Hi everyone, just a brief rundown of last week and look ahead to next week.
We started looking at prayer as the first in our topical studies we will be doing this summer.
We talked about who taught us to pray and how they taught us to pray.
Here are some words of Richard Foster’s that we looked at:
“To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God the more we see our need and the more we desire to be conformed to Christ. William Blake tells us that our task in life is to learn to bear God’s “beams of love”. How often we fashion cloaks of evasion- beam-proof shelters- in order to elude our Eternal Lover. But when we pray God slowly and graciously reveals to us our hiding places, and sets us free from them.”
from “Celebration of Discipline”
We practiced praying together using a form of prayer called the "centering prayer". Click here to download a guide. We will be going on a field trip this week to the Chapel of St. Ignatius where we will explore prayer in this sacred space.
I have started a page on google for our group, as I could not find a way to attach a file to this post.... click here to visit
We started looking at prayer as the first in our topical studies we will be doing this summer.
We talked about who taught us to pray and how they taught us to pray.
Here are some words of Richard Foster’s that we looked at:
“To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God the more we see our need and the more we desire to be conformed to Christ. William Blake tells us that our task in life is to learn to bear God’s “beams of love”. How often we fashion cloaks of evasion- beam-proof shelters- in order to elude our Eternal Lover. But when we pray God slowly and graciously reveals to us our hiding places, and sets us free from them.”
from “Celebration of Discipline”
We practiced praying together using a form of prayer called the "centering prayer". Click here to download a guide. We will be going on a field trip this week to the Chapel of St. Ignatius where we will explore prayer in this sacred space.
I have started a page on google for our group, as I could not find a way to attach a file to this post.... click here to visit