CHRISTIAN
MEDITATION RETREAT
MARCH
23-2, 2012
Casual
inquirers should note that by “Christian Meditation”
is meant not just any form of contemplative or meditative prayer
in the Christian tradition, but the specific form of mantra
prayer taught by John Main, OSB, the World
Community of Christian Meditation and hundreds of meditation
groups around the world.
Meditation
is a Pilgrimage to our own center, to our own heart.
To enter into the simplicity of it demands discipline
and even courage. We need faith, simplicity; we need
to become childlike. If we are faithful and patient,
meditation will bring us into deeper and deeper realms
of silence. It is in this silence that we are led into
the mystery of the eternal silence of God. That is the
invitation of Christian prayer: to lose ourselves and
to be absorbed in God. Each of us is summoned to the
heights of Christian Prayer, to the faithfulness of
life. What we need, however, is the humility to tread
the way very faithfully over a period of years, so that
the prayer of Christ may indeed be the grounding experience
of our lives.
— John Main, OSB
Director: Fr.
Bernie Owens, SJ
Dates
and time: Friday March 25, 7:30 PM to Sunday noon, March 27,
2012
Location:
Manresa Jesuit Retreat House
1390 Quarton Rd., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Phone: 248.644.4933 or 313.564.6455; FAX: 248.644.8291
E-mail: office@manresa-sj.org
Cost:
$215 which includes nonrefundable registration fee of $50.00
for retreat, private room and meals (first meal is Saturday
breakfast)
Register
on line or mail our application
form with $50 check made out to Manresa.
