Upcoming Events
Practices for Contemplative Living Part 2
When: Third Saturday of October through March, and April 26: October 19, November 16, December 21, January 18, February 15, March 15, April 26
Where and time: October-December and March-April, in person only at St. Walburga Monastery, 851 North Broad Street, Elizabeth, NJ, 9 am to 2 pm. Registration requested (see below).
January and February: Zoom only, 9 am to 11 am. No registration required.
Cost: We ask $20 per in-person event or $82 for all 5 in-person events. All are welcome regardless of ability to pay. No fee is requested from members of vowed religious communities. Zoom events are free of charge.
For In-Person Events
The room in which we meet holds a maximum of 24 people. Those who register are given priority. Walk-ins are welcome until the limit is reached. If you register and are not coming, please email coordinator@centeringprayernj.com so that we do not hold the space. Thank you!
Lunch: Please bring lunch. Coffee, tea, and some food will be provided.
Questions? Email coordinator@centeringprayernj.com.
October 19: Active Prayer
November 16: Spiritual Reading
December 21: Advent Day of Prayer with Fr. Carl Arico
January 18: Fr. Carl Arico on Zoom live – topic tbd. Click here to join.
February 15: Spiritual counsels/going deeper with contemplative practices. Click here to join.
March 15: Welcoming Prayer
April 26: Guard of the Heart
Monthly Mini-Intensives on Zoom
First Saturdays, 8 am to 9:15 am
Please enter in silence, with volume muted.
Format: Two 25-minute prayer times separated by time for an optional meditative walk, followed by Lectio Divina with Guidelines for Christian Living by Father Thomas Keating.
Registration is not required.
New Link for January 4: https://tinyurl.com/2pv22j4v
Typically link to join is the same for each session.
Link to join
Meeting ID: 889 855 1069
Passcode: 601121
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“Within the stillness of silence, God speaks to the heart”
–sign at St. Joseph’s Abbey, Spencer, MA
Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY
Dec. 10-13, 2024: Centering Prayer: Lectio Divina and the Four Senses of Scripture
Jan. 31 – Feb. 2, 2025: In Silence with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Feb. 18-21, 2025: Centering Prayer Retreat
Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2025: Opening to Our Pre-existing Union With God. A Centering Prayer Retreat with Keith Kristich
May 13-19, 2025: 7-day Intensive/Post-Intensive Retreat
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center, West Hartford, CT
May 4-9, 2025: 6-day Intensive/Post-Intensive Retreat with Fr. Bill Sheehan
Material from Past Events
Fr. Carl Arico’s Advent Day of Prayer December 18, 2021
Please find links to audio recordings of Fr. Carl Arico’s talks on December 18, 2021 as well as text of prayers and other readings used that day.