What i suggest based on the christian tradition but not often preached is that you cant enter into the fullness of the pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you. Invitation to love provides a road map for the journey that begins when centering prayer is seriously undertaken. When we experience gods love for us, we can respond with a growing love for god. Father thomas keating writes with the simplicity and depth that emerge from more than fifty years of practicing to become a friend of godin his case as a cistercian monk, abbot, and spiritual advisor.
Thomas keating has 78 books on goodreads with 11519 ratings. The way of christian contemplation keating, thomas on. Intimacy with god by father thomas keating is one of the best books i have ever read about prayer. Selected writings from the contemplative outreach newsletter, p. Carl arico, in conversation focused on the idea that when god chose to create the universe it wasnt a onetime event. Thus keating believes that through the ongoing practice of centering prayer we can become healed of our emotional wounds.
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Jun 28, 2012 invitation to love provides a road map for the journey that begins when centering prayer is seriously undertaken. Father thomas keating laughs, talks, and elaborates with the. An invitation to love provides a practical and adaptable sequence of prayer sessions on the great commandment of the christian faith. I wonder the persistence and love it takes to cleanly navigate to truth through the bruises and beauty of religion.
Father thomas keating shares the following reasons for a centering prayer group. One of the founders of the centering prayer movement, thomas keating offers a reflection on contemplative prayer, the human search for happiness and our need to explore the inner world. For more on centering prayer, keating, and the divine therapy, see the centering prayer page. In 1997, father thomas keating became the fifth person to deliver the harold m. Invitation to love offers the conceptual background for the practice and for the christian contemplative journey in general. At the age of eightyone, he continues to be a prominent voice in the christian centering prayer movement through the organization he founded, contemplative outreach, an international network committed to renewing the contemplative dimension of the gospel in daily life. In that socalled emptiness, enjoyment arises of itself. Without thinking or feeling some emotion, there is just awareness. Father thomas keating, founder of the centering prayer movement and internationally renowned theologian, is known as a public speaker and a teacher of centering prayera revival of contemplative meditation intended to grow the christians personal relationship with god. Homilies of thomas keating ebook by thomas keating. The current method was developed in the 1970s by trappist father thomas keating responding to young pilgrims arriving at his. The spiritual search for god, he says, is also the search for ourselves. A prayer practice inspired by the christian mystics.
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