Silent Beginnings
L-R: Mary Mrosowski, Bob Draper, David Fore, Barbara Hennesy, Bob Bartel, Claire Durand Racamato, David Frenette, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler, Donna, Thomas Keating, Bill Sheehan, Carl Arico, Carl Shelton
The year was 1983 and the place was the high country near Taos, New Mexico at The Lama Foundation. It was there during periods of fertile silence and centering prayer that Contemplative Outreach had its seminal beginnings at "Lama I" - the first intensive centering prayer retreat that had ever been held.
The photo above is of the retreatants who attended Lama I and Fr. Thomas Keating who led the retreat. Also present as a retreatant and Lama community liason was Pat Johnson, who since 1987 has staffed enumberable Contemplative Outreach intensive retreats at the St. Benedict's Monastery retreat house near Snowmass, Colorado, USA.
READINGS
- June 2009 Contemplative Outreach E-News "25 Years of Practice in Community" (large PDF file, patience please)
- Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. - History
- Manifesting God by Fr. Thomas Keating, "Origin and Development of Centering Prayer and Contemplative Outreach"
- The Divine Indwelling: Centering Prayer and Its Development by Thomas Keating et al., "The Spiritual Network of Contemplative Outreach Limited"
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