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Wisdom, Centering Prayer Meditation, May 2025

Our theme for this month – Wisdom, from Joan Chittister ‘s book, In a High Season, and the Wisdom Psalm 1 as expressed in the Carmelite rule: to develop a contemplative dimension to [our] lives, to “meditate day and night on the Word of the Lord.” Psalm 1 - Blessed is...

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A message to the Carmelite Centre Community, March 2025

The recent retirement of our inaugural staff members, Irene Hayes and Damien Peile, after sixteen years’ service has provided the Province with the opportunity to reflect on the work of the Centre, its significance to the Province as a deep expression of who the...

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Carmelite Library January 2025

Dear Friends of the Carmelite Library Please find the link below to the January 2025 issue of the library’s newsletter. We hope that you enjoy reading about the library’s recent news and updates. We also invite you to take advantage of several opportunities for...

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Eco Spirituality Reading Circle – Inspiring and Challenging

For the small group of people who have gathered six times this year, the text we have been reading has been quite inspiring and challenging. It is Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis by Leah D Schade and Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, editors,...

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The Psalms, Centering Prayer Meditation August 2024

  Our theme for August’s reflection looks at the messages the Psalms have for us. We’ll acknowledge that we are known by God, in Psalm 139, protected by him when we call his name, Psalm 116, and strengthened, Psalm 16. * Psm 139. You have searched me Lord, and...

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Lectio Divina: an inspiring way to start the day

I was given the link for the daily Carmelite Lectio Divina by a friend four years ago and have made it a daily habit to use it. I was delighted when I discovered the weekly Friday Lectio on Zoom, led so wonderfully by Irene and Damien. Since then I have put the...

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Silent Prayer, Centering Prayer Meditation July 2024

Our theme for July – Silent Prayer, comes from Jan Harris’ book, Quiet in His Presence.  We’re encouraged not to pay attention to any words or thoughts...coming to Him for himself, as a gift…empty-handed, humble and speechless…encouraged in our meditation to use a...

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Courage, Centering Prayer Mediation, June 2024

We continue our reflections from Gerald May’s book, the Wisdom of the Wilderness, for this month – on the theme of courage. Gerald May says: Sometimes you just take your chances. There’s a sort of freedom when you’ve done what you can do and you just have to give up...

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The Power of Slowing, Centering Prayer Meditation, May 2024

The theme for this month of May is a reflection on the Power of Slowing, using themes from Gerald May’s book, The Wisdom of the Wilderness, with epigraphs from Saint John of the Cross, a sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite friar. Gerald May says: The call of...

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Wisdom, Centering Prayer Meditation, May 2025

Our theme for this month – Wisdom, from Joan Chittister ‘s book, In a High Season, and the Wisdom Psalm 1 as expressed in the Carmelite rule: to develop a contemplative dimension to [our] lives, to “meditate day and night on the Word of the Lord.” Psalm 1 - Blessed is...

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A message to the Carmelite Centre Community, March 2025

The recent retirement of our inaugural staff members, Irene Hayes and Damien Peile, after sixteen years’ service has provided the Province with the opportunity to reflect on the work of the Centre, its significance to the Province as a deep expression of who the...

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