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Weekly Christian Meditation Group - Mondays, 7:00-7:45 pm. Begun more than 30 years ago in St. Rose Parish, this small ecumenical group meets each week to meditate together and to support its members in their twice-daily practice of Christian meditation. Over time, this ancient way of contemplative prayer, marked by silence, stillness and simplicity, transforms our entire life — body, mind and spirit. First, we listen to a talk by Benedictine monk, John Main (1926-1982), on the tradition and practice of Christian meditation, and then we meditate together in silence. Many people find that this ancient way of prayer helps them to develop from their own experience a deeper understanding of the truths of our Faith, as well as to learn how better to face the personal challenges of living in today’s society. You would be most welcome. Information: GJRyan@wccm.org | www.WCCM.org

Meditation and Reality

“Meditation and the constant return to it, every day of your life, is like cutting a pathway through to reality. . . And it is no small thing to enter reality, to become real, to become who we are, because in that experience we are freed from all the images that so constantly plague us. We do not have to be anyone's image of ourselves, but simply the real person we are.” — John Main OSB, THE HEART OF CREATION

Love & Happiness

“Meditation is purification of the heart and the death of desire. As there is a birth for every death, there is also the regeneration of desire as desire for God. This can never be desire for an object of ego-satisfaction. But it is of course a desire for our own happiness: we can never desire to be unhappy. Desire for God. . .is desire for our happiness by obedience to the law of . . .love. [This law] states that the only kind of desire that will make us truly and permanently happy is the desire for the happiness of others.” — Laurence Freeman OSB, “WCCM Newsletter, Winter 2000.”