Centering Prayer Group

Centering Prayer (online) invites you to discover a centuries-old prayer method.  Centering Prayer consists of simply sitting in silence with God – beyond thoughts, words, and emotions – and opening our mind, heart and whole being to the Trinity. After an extended silence, we open ourselves to what God wants us to receive through Ignatian contemplation using Lectio Divina or gospel contemplation. (You are welcome to turn your video “off” and mute your microphone and enjoy simply being with God in remote community with others)

Take a moment to read a fantastic excerpt from Henri Nouwen (below)!

You are invited to join Soul Care Seattle @ The Layne:

      Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 

• September 14th @ 7:00PM – 8:30PM
• October 26th, 7:00PM -8:30PM
• November 9, 7:00PM-8:00PM
• December 7th, 7:00PM-8:00PM
• January 11, 7:00PM-8:00PM
• February 15th, 7:00PM-8:00PM
• March 7th, 7:00PM-8:00PM
• April 4th, 7:00PM – 8:00PM
• April 25th, 7:00PM-8:00PM
• May 9th, 7:00PM-8:00PM

The Centering Prayer Group will be guided by Donna Kelley. Each session begins with breif time of catching up with one another before praying a Psalm together followed by a 20-minute period of Silence and ending our time together with Sacred Reading of Scripture (Lectio Divina) and leave in silence.

Questions:  Email Donna Kelley at donna@soulcareseattle.com

Registration (no fee) is required so that we can send you a ZOOM link. All are welcome.

Links will be sent just prior to the time together.

From Henri Nouwen…

Are You Home? Today worrying means to be occupied and preoccupied with many things, while at the same time being bored, resentful, depressed, and very lonely. I am not trying to say that all of us are worried in such an extreme way all the time. Yet there is little doubt in my mind that the experience of being filled yet unfulfilled touches most of us to some degree at some time. In our highly technological and competitive world, it is hard to avoid completely the forces that fill up our inner and outer space and disconnect us from our innermost selves, our fellow human beings, and our God. One of the most notable characteristics of worrying is that it fragments our lives. The many things to do, to think about, to plan for, the many people to remember to visit, or to talk with, the many causes to attack or defend, all these pull us apart and make us lose our center. Worrying causes us to be “all over the place,” but seldom at home. One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.