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    • Worship & Formation
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    • Who we are >
      • Message from the Rector
      • About Us
      • Staff
      • Vestry >
        • Annual Meeting
        • Missional Priorities
        • Communication Guidelines
        • By-Laws
        • Minutes
    • Photo Galleries >
      • 2022 Parish Picnic
      • Summer Small Groups 2022
      • Confirmation-Parish Picnic 2021 Gallery
      • Parish Fair 2021
      • Sundaes on Saturday
      • Fresh Air Fellowship Cataloochee
      • 2020 Picnic & Baptisms Gallery
    • Calendar
    • Daily Office
  • Serve
    • Congregational Care
    • Outreach >
      • Food Pantry >
        • Food Pantry Hours
      • Parish Fair
      • Grace Giving Garden
    • Creation Care Ministry
    • Memorial Garden >
      • Pet Wall
    • Daughters of the King
    • Marthas
    • Buildings and Grounds
    • Resources
  • Learn
    • Teach Us To Pray >
      • Centering Prayer
      • Prayer of the Imagination
      • Jesus Prayer
      • The Examen
      • Lectio Devina
      • Body Prayer
      • Prayerful Art
    • Formation >
      • Episcopal Church 101
      • Resources
    • Children & Youth >
      • Nursery
      • Children
      • Youth Group
  • Give
    • Ways to Give
    • Give Online
    • Stewardship Statement
    • Annual Giving >
      • Pledge to Weaving Grace Together (Treasure)
      • Pledge to Weaving Grace Together (Time & Talent )
    • The Science of Generosity
    • Legacy of Grace Endowment
    • Stock Donations
  • Music
  • Resources
    • Addiction Recover Resources
    • Community Conversations about Suicide
    • Connect with us Online
    • Parish Program Planning Checklist
    • Forms >
      • Advent 2022 Quiet Day RSVP
      • Coffee Hour Sign up
      • Prayer Requests
      • Altar Flower Order Form
      • Nametag Order Form
      • Membership Database Information Form
      • Nursery/Sunday School Registration
      • Application for Rent/Use of Facilities
      • Application for Fundraising Activity Event
      • Check Request Reimbursement Form

Centering Prayer
​A Resource Page for Contemplative Practice

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New to Centering Prayer? Click here for a beginner's guide


Take Two Minutes to Center.  

​Here’s a guided 2-minute practice of centering offered by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Learn how to pray with your whole body.
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Centering Prayer | "Teach Us To Pray" Episode 1
In this episode of "Teach Us to Pray", we focus on the receptive, listening aspect of prayer through the practice of Centering Prayer. Joslyn+ gives an inviting and simple tutorial on her approach to this wonderful ancient prayer practice.

Check out other videos in this series on the many forms of prayer by clicking the links below! A new episode airs every Tuesday on Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram.


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More resources

Books
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening by Cynthia Bourgeault
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice by Cynthia Bourgeault
Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer by Thomas Keating
Open Mind, Open Heart by Thomas Keating
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr
 
Videos
Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence (available on Amazon Prime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2MrMDpwchA
What Is Contemplative Prayer? By Richard Rohr
https://youtu.be/b0o5J0-8OA0
Contemplation as Luminous Seeing by Cynthia Bourgeault
https://youtu.be/LaaA5hJAI0c
 
Practice of Lectio Divina by Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB
A brief overview of the ancient monastic practice of lectio divina by Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB, of St. Procopius Abbey
https://youtu.be/7d1BP-CeVoA

Music & Chants
Wellsprings of Life: Quaker Wisdom in Chant by Paulette Meier
“Concepts as subtle and challenging as inner stillness, non-attachment, and the indwelling Christ Spirit come powerfully alive through these mystical chants. One can drink these chants in, almost like an elixir of hope!"
https://www.paulettemeier.com/store/p79/Wellsprings_of_Life%3A_Quaker_Wisdom_in_Chant.html
 
Wisdom Chants by Darlene Franz
Darlene’s work… cultivates the expansion of attention and presence, deepening of embodied awareness, and freeing of personal and collective energies blocked by habit and conditioning.  Carried into daily life, such chant practice can bring meaning to ordinary experience, enliven prayer and meditation practice, and enrich outward expressions of service.
https://wisdomchant.bandcamp.com/
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“Psalm” by John Coltrane
Richard Rohr included a link to this jazz expression as a form of Lectio Divina, or sacred reading. He wrote: “We invite you to contemplate the soulful music of saxophonist John Coltrane’s composition “Psalm” from his album A Love Supreme. He put this handwritten poem/prayer on the music stand in front of him and played it as if it were music. Practicing Lectio Divina with this song may deepen your sense of prayer and add possible ways to pray. That is one of the beauties of Lectio Divina: it encourages us to “pray always.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmbWRZfOgwc
 
Additional Resources
“The Welcoming Prayer helps to dismantle acquired emotional programs and to heal the wounds of a lifetime by addressing them where they are stored — in the body. It contributes to the process of transformation in Christ initiated in Centering Prayer.” ---Contemplative Outreach
https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/welcoming-prayer-method/
The Road to Emmaus #2 by Daniel Bonnell
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Sit Like a Mountain

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Centering Prayer Weekly Challenge

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 Worship Times
Sunday

8:00am in person and live stream
9:15am Adult formation in person and on Zoom
10:30am in person
Children's Sunday- 1st Sundays @ 10:30 am
​Taize Service - 1st Sundays @ 7:00 pm


Wednesday
12:00 pm Eucharist + Healing Service
Grace Church in the Mountains
394 N. Haywood Street, Waynesville, North Carolina 28786 • Phone: (828) 456-6029   Email: admin@gracewaynesville.com
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