Finding Grace at the Center, 3rd ed.
Overview
Centering Prayer is a precious part of the ancient spiritual traditions of the West. When Finding Grace at the Center was first published in 1978, people all over the world welcomed this practical guide to a simple and beautiful form of meditative prayer. Reflections and advice on Centering Prayer’s possibilities—and its pitfalls—are presented with clarity and simplicity, with a vision of the deeper life of the soul that contemplative prayer can bring about. Now, with a new foreword by Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, another generation will discover the amazing difference Centering Prayer can make in their lives.
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- Introduces the meditative practice of Centering Prayer
- Presents a revised edition of the 1978 classic that started the Centering Prayer movement
- Includes a foreword by Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault
- Centering Prayer
- Cultivating the Centering Prayer
- Contemplative Prayer in Christian Tradition
- Finding Grace at the Center
- Focus on Centering Prayer
Top Highlights
“The Center is the place, too, where I can most creatively meet the behavior, attitudes, options, awarenesses, and responses which constitute my moral, spiritual, and religious life. The ‘consciousness examen’ heals, reshapes, intensifies, to the degree that it takes place at the Center. It is here that the Artist, using no other clay than that which I bring from my earthly struggle to live humanly, patiently, refashions me in the image of Jesus Christ.” (Page 94)
“To the degree that I am at the center of my self, the divine Self delivers into my hands, for sharing and for future ‘selfing’, this selfing history that is mine.” (Page 93)
Provides clear methods and images for the practice and understanding of Centering Prayer.
—Catholic News Service
Father Keating writes with the simplicity and depth that emerges from more than 50 years of practicing to become a ‘friend of God.’ . . . Those of us who learn from him are grateful for—and blessed by—his gifts.
—Elaine Pagels, author, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
Basil Pennington [was] a gifted, creative, powerful and wise teacher—one of the truly precious souls of our generation.
—Lawrence Kushner, author, Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary
- Title: Finding Grace at the Center: The Beginning of Centering Prayer
- Authors: M. Basil Pennington, Thomas Keating, Thomas E. Clarke
- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Publisher: SkyLight Paths
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 113
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Contemplation
- ISBNs: 9781594731822, 1594731829, 9780281055357, 9781893361690, 0281055351, 1893361691
- Resource ID: LLS:FNDNGGRCCNTR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:44:14Z
M. Basil Pennington was a Trappist monk. He authored over 60 books, including Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form, Monastic Life, and A School of Love: The Cistercian Way to Holiness.
Thomas Keating is known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St. Benedict’s Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he is a founder of the Centering Prayer movement and of Contemplative Outreach. He is the author of numerous books, particularly the trilogy of Open Mind, Open Heart; Invitation to Love; and The Mystery of Christ. He served as abbot at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Massachusetts for 20 years before retiring to Snowmass, where he now resides.
Thomas E. Clarke is a well-known Jesuit writer and spiritual father. He has authored and coauthored several books, including Befriending the Earth and Playing in the Gospel: Spiritual and Pastoral Models. He now resides at Bethany Retreat Center in Highland Mills, New York.