The St. Rose weekly meditation group has been meeting Monday nights since 1981, following an introductory presentation on the ancient tradition and practice of Christian meditation given at our parish by Benedictine Father Laurence Freeman, Spiritual Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation. A few years later, since St. Rose had no meeting space at the time, the Belmar Council of Churches offered to host our ecumenical contemplative prayer group, and so our group has enjoyed the hospitality of the First Presbyterian Church of Belmar for more than 30 years now.
Group Leader:
Gregory Ryan, husband and father of two grown daughters and grandfather of two precious little angels, has been a meditator and a Benedictine Oblate member of The World Community for Christian Meditation (www.WCCM.org) for 35 years. Until recently, he was the general editor of the Christian Meditation International NEWSLETTER and Webmaster of www.WCCM.org. He is the editor of OUR HEARTS BURNED WITHIN US: Reading the New Testament with John Main (Medio Media), author of MY HAPPY HEART: Prayer of the Heart for Children, and composer of the companion CD, MY HAPPY HEART SINGS (Medio Media). Greg has published articles on Thomas Merton, John Main and “the new monasticism” in Praying, The Merton Seasonal, The Merton Annual, Sisters Today, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, and Monastic Studies. Most recently, with his wife Liz, he has co-authored a children’s book on Thomas Merton which will be published by Paraclete Press in the spring of 2017.
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