Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

Long ago, Daniel Berrigan told me a tragic story about being invited to speak to a packed church of cloistered nuns somewhere on the East Coast in 1965. They wanted him to read from his latest book of ...

These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 5, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, ...

Theologians often describe prayer as a dialogue, but for some people it’s more of a monologue. The supplicant makes requests or recites an established prayer. But in a practice known as contemplative ...

ContemplativeBeehive.com or 303-652-3659. Though first practiced by early Christian monks, modern-day Christians aim to integrate their forefathers` silent, contemplative prayer into their daily lives ...

Centering prayer is catching on among Protestants in South Korea. "Nearly all Protestant prayer revolves around seeking something from God" says Reverend Lee Min-jae, a Methodist pastor from Eunmyung ...

Contemplation took centre stage at the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) silent retreat themed The Spirit of Lent and the Future of Religion, held at the Stella Maris Retreat Centre from ...

Pope Francis has issued a new wide-ranging set of guidelines for how the tens of thousands of Catholic women religious living in contemplative communities around the world should regulate their ...