Beyond Centering Prayer

You’ve tried Centering Prayer, but you don’t have a current practice. It didn’t seem to be for you. Or maybe you have a current practice, and you wonder how to deepen it. What comes Beyond Centering Prayer?

This five-week series of exercises explores differences between Centering Prayer and the contemplative prayer exercise of The Cloud of Unknowing. Each week includes an introduction and exercise, a series of short readings, and a Journee link--an AI powered interactive journal that can help guide you.

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Introduction to the exercises

Week Topic Readings Journee
1 Centering prayer Week 1 Readings Journee 1
2 Life Week 2 Readings Journee 2
3 Light Week 3 Readings Journee 3
4 Love Week 4 Readings Journee 4
5 Without ceasing Week 5 Readings Journee 5

Here is a link to a generic Journee agent, not customized for a particular week of BCP: https://life.ccel.org/agents/cloud-of-unknowing-interactive-journal/

Categories: Study

Harry Plantinga

Harry Plantinga is a professor of computer science at Calvin University and the director of ccel.org and hymnary.org.