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The Roots for Christian Mysticism
Course has got off to a flying start!
January 8, 2003
Thirty-four participants and six teachers met for the
Introductory Session at the Spirituality Centre, Monastery
of Christ the King, Cockfosters, London on Sunday 5
January - Epiphany being an auspicious day to start.
Many of the participants are new to meditation, and
a third of them are young in age.
Fr Laurence started with an inspiring introductory lecture
to the Course, followed by vespers with the monks, meditation,
and a very enjoyable social gathering, with excellent
food provided by Kath Barnard of the Spirituality Centre.
We can't let you taste the food, but the lecture and
the recommended reading list have been posted in the
Resources section of the School website. Over the coming
year, we plan to give you access to summaries of the
talks given during the course through the School website,
and thus for those of you who were unable to attend
the course owing to over-subscription, you will be able
to join our journey in spirit if not in body!
We continue coming Thursday with Fr Laurence talking
about the Synoptic Gospels.
In love and peace,
Kim Nataraja
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A Tribute to Fr. John Main as a
Teacher of Meditation
December 30, 2002
On the twentieth anniversary of Fr. John Main's death,
the Rev'd. Glenda Meakin, a member of the Canadian Resource
Team for the School, has written a tribute to Fr. John.
To read this tribute, please click
here.
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The Roots of Christian Mysticism
course
This new one-year course, starting on 5 January 2003,
offers a unique opportunity to explore in depth the
history of Christian Mysticism. It is a structured course
taught by leading scholars and practitioners, including
Laurence Freeman, Kallistos Ware, Kim Nataraja, and
Peter Tyler.
For more information, please click
here to download the course brochure in pdf format.
If you are interested in enrolling on the course, please
click
here to download the course application form in
pdf format.
To view pdf files, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader
installed on your computer. If you do not have it, you
can download it for free from the Adobe
website.
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Our new School website
We take this opportunity to thank David Worley for the
generous gift of his time, expertise and energy in designing
the site for us. David is a web designer from Baltimore,
Maryland, USA, and, whilst working for a company here
in the UK, he was so impressed by our mission to pass
on the practice of meditation that he very kindly offered
his services. Although David has now returned to the US,
he stressed his continued commitment to the Community
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Report on the Essential Teaching School
held at Sneaton Castle Centre, Whitby,UK
17th-19th May 2002
Travelling to Whitby was an exciting trip for us to take
since we are Americans now living in London. After crossing
the beautiful and foggy moors of North Yorkshire, we arrived
at the Sneaton Castle Centre, rich in history and near
the sea. It is a quiet place of peace, the peace we often
strive for through our meditation. It set an appropriate
mood for our gathering....
click here to read the full
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Report on the Essential Teaching School
held at Cold Ash Centre, Berkshire, UK
2-4 November 2001
There were twenty of us gathered at Cold Ash for this
weekend and my impressions as I left were of a very enjoyable
time. I'm sure I am meant to say we learnt a lot, had
many in-depth discussions leading to a deeper understanding
of our spiritual path, did lots of meditation with helpful
and beautiful input, and were thoroughly spiritually improved
by the end of the time. Well,all this was really true!
Moreover, we enjoyed being in a group of people committed
to the same spiritual way and all very willing to share
our experience, our questions, our expertise, however
large or small, and hopes for the future...
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Extracts from:
The Airport, the Trail and the Bread:
Reflections on the School Retreat in Fara Sabina, Italy
Michel Legault
Although appealing in a sense, arriving in an unknown
territory creates discomfort and there is in each one
of us the paradoxical desire to get back to what we know.
During the silent meditation retreat that we began with
Laurence Freeman and Eileen O'Shea the following day,
we were reminded that the pilgrimage of contemplative
prayer requires a constant letting go of the comfortable
place that we have reached to plunge more deeply into
the ever expanding divine mystery...
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