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Talk · Contemplative Outreach · 2024The Evolution of the Contemplative Christian Journey
89 min
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An hour and a half on how the contemplative tradition changed hands between the desert and the present.

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Meet Thomas Keating.

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Centering Prayer · Trappist

Thomas Keating

American Trappist priest and abbot (1923–2018), one of the principal developers of Centering Prayer, the contemplative method that came out of St Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts and spread through the network he helped found.

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