| August 22, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 10:30 am |
PC Twin Cities invites you to join them for their upcoming Meditation and Prayer Gathering.
Saturday, August 22
St. Joan of Arc Parish Center, 4537 3rd Ave. So. Minneapolis
These gatherings are open and welcoming to all who wish to join for reflection and prayer. If you would like to volunteer to facilitate one of their upcoming monthly prayer/meditation gatherings, please let PC Twin Cities know and they would be happy to add you to their schedule.
Corinne Moncada will be the faciliator and attached is her reflection piece.
Also, please remember that there will be no gathering in September – instead please consider attending the Pax Christi MN State Assembly, Choosing the Non-Violent Way of Compassion, on Saturday, Sept. 26th at St. Frances Cabrini Church with keynote speaker Father Michael Crosby.
Creative Silence by Thomas Merton, OCSO
The following piece was originally published in The Baptist Student, the student newspaper of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky (vol. 48, no. 5, February 1969).
Imagine a man or a group of people who, alone or together in a quiet place where no radio, no background music can be heard, simply sit for an hour and a half in silence. They do not speak. They do not pray aloud. They do not have books or papers in their hands. They are not reading or writing. They are not busy with anything. They simply enter into themselves, not in order to think in an analytical way, not in order to examine, organize, plan, but simply in order to be. They want to synthesize, to integrate themselves, to rediscover themselves in a unity of thought, will, understanding, and love that go beyond words, beyond analysis, even beyond conscious thought. They want to pray not with their lips but with their silent hearts and, beyond that, with the very ground of their being.
