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These sessions are designed to help anyone who wants to learn to meditate. Maybe you’re starting from scratch. Or you’ve done some meditation before in a different tradition. Maybe you meditate already and need to be reminded it’s always about learning. However you come to it, the starting point is: it is a simple daily practice. Like everything worthwhile, it takes time but it produces wonderful fruits in your life. You’ll probably wonder ‘why didn’t I do this before and how did I think ‘it’s not for me’ because it is so obviously for everyone?’
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More Being, Less Doing: An Estonian Priest’s Discovery of Liberating Humility
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Tauno, the Estonian National Coordinator, shares about his journey and the oblate path. As a Lutheran priest, army chaplain, husband, and father of two, Tauno discovered the contemplative path during the 2020 pandemic and, driven by a lifelong interest in monastic spirituality, quickly sought to become a WCCM Oblate. His journey, marked by wrestling with feelings of unworthiness, became a profound rediscovery of the core Christian teaching: salvation by grace alone. His story culminates in his Final Oblation at Bonnevaux and his realization that contemplative life, inspired by the Rule of St. Benedict, is fundamentally about "be more and do less".
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MORE READS ON MEDITATORS' STORIES
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FREE RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
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To be fully alive, John Main (1926-82) says, is to experience life in the power of Jesus, to live our lives in union with him. Jesus invites us to this fullness of life, but the invitation comes with a challenge: “If a man will let himself be lost for my sake, he will find his true self.” Meditation, Fr John says, is a way of losing oneself.
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⬇️ Download the audio files and full transcript here
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UPCOMING ONLINE EVENTS & RETREATS
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Celtic Christianity was one of the most vibrant expressions of the Christ-event in history. This year's John Main Seminar will explore the reappearance of Celtic Christian wisdom today at a critical moment for human evolution. We will do this through spirituality, poetry, art, the Celtic sense of the sacred in Nature, pilgrimage, monasticism – and meditation.
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Earth Crisis Forum 8 : Ecojustice from the Heart
This forum, led by members of the Laudato Si Movement, will share and reflect on the contemplative way being discovered across the world as an antidote to the climate and socioenvironmental crisis.
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Born from the First Beginning
A webinar on The Gospel of Thomas.
Please join us for an in-depth exploration of the ‘hidden’ Gospel of St Thomas online with three scholars including Neil Douglas-Klotz, author of The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Message of the Aramaic Jesus.
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A Day of Peace — An Offering to the World
Peace is not just the absence of conflict; it is a living force—cultivated in stillness, expressed in action, and felt in community
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God’s Poverty - Advent Retreat
Led by Laurence Freeman OSB
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Experience Christmas at Bonnevaux
Led by Laurence Freeman OSB & Fr Peter Murphy
A contemplative Christmas in community
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Deep Silent Retreat
Lessons from Jonah, the whale, and others
Enter the Great Silence
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WEEKLY READINGS & TEACHINGS
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