The purpose of our Lenten disciplines is to deepen our conscious awareness of and responsiveness to Divine Presence. One of these disciplines is, of course, prayer. In her reflection on the Jesuit mystic ...
Lent is, in many ways, a purposeful embrace of loss, of letting go. With this in mind, though spring draws near, we harken back to autumn with this excerpt from...
A restructuring of consciousness takes place [as a result of contemplative practice]… In its definition of contemplative prayer, Contemplative Outreach—St. Louis names perhaps the scariest, most wonderful, and most critical fruit of contemplation: a restructuring of our very consciousness. Rather than simply altering our vision of God and reality....