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"The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are" John Main OSB.
Fr. John Main OSB founded the World Community for Christian Meditation and he believed that the contemplative experience creates community. He recovered the teaching of pure prayer of the desert fathers
His successor is his disciple and fellow monk, Fr Laurence Freeman OSB who is the director of WCCM.
" Meditation is the missing dimension of much of Christian life today. It does not exclude other types of prayer and indeed deepens reverence for the sacraments and scripture" Laurence Freeman OSB.
There are many Christian meditation groups across London, the rest of the country and throughout the world. For more information visit the website (link above).
“Contemplative Prayer is the world in which God can do anything. To move into this realm is the greatest adventure. It is to open to the Infinite and hence infinite possibilities.” Open Mind: Open Heart by Thomas Keating OCSO, founder of Contemplative Outreach.
The primary purpose of Contemplative Outreach is to teach the method of Centering Prayer and to offer practices to bring its fruits into daily life. We help individuals and groups establish a contemplative practise by offering Centering Prayer workshops, retreats and formation programmes. Our programmes are designed to bring the richness of the Christian Contemplative Heritage into a contemporary and accessible format.
Contemplative Outreach Ltd is now a world wide movement with a growing number of groups here in the UK including London and the South East
For links to information world-wide contact Contemplative Outreach Ltd.
The Julian meetings foster the teaching and practice of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition; encourage people to practise contemplative prayer in their daily lives, and to explore ways of doing this which are appropriate for them; and support the individual ecumenical Julian Meetings - groups whose members meet regularly to practise Christian contemplative prayer together.
This link will take you to the leaflets published by the Retreat Association, including one which lists silent prayer groups in the UK.
Links to other organisations fostering the contemplative life |