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Online Content - Meditatio Newsletter, December, 2012

SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM FATHER LAURENCE FREEMAN IN LATIN AMERICA:

 

Online Content - Meditatio Newsletter, October, 2012

 

VIDEOS

- JOHN MAIN SEMINAR VIDEO CLIP

- LEONARDO BOFF: "CONTEMPLATION CAN HEAL THE PLANET"

- TALKS OF THE PRE-SEMINAR RETREAT: "BE WHO YOU ARE", LED BY LAURENCE FREEMAN

- MEDITATION WITH CHILDREN ASIAN TOUR VIDEO CLIP

- NEW MEDITATION PROGRAMME AT GEORGETOWN: SEAN HAGAN

- NEW MEDITATION PROGRAMME AT GEORGETOWN: LAURENCE FREEMAN 

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John Main Seminar 2012 in Brazil

Since 1983 The John Main Seminar has been the annual international gathering of The WCCM. In 2012, for the first time, it was held in Latin America  - in Brazil - and addressed the spiritual implications of the global environmental crisis. Leonardo Boff and Frei Betto OP were the speakers. The Seminar was preceded by a retreat led by Laurence Freeman OSB. After the Seminar a group of the participants made a pilgrimage to the Iguacu Falls.

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Extra Online Content - Meditatio Newsletter, July, 2012

 

New  “Way of Peace”  planned with the Dalai Lama

- SEE PHOTOS OF THE MEETING

- VIDEO: DALAI LAMA'S MESSAGE FOR WCCM

- INTERVIEW WITH LAURENCE FREEMAN ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP

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- VIDEOS: TALKS OF BERE ISLAND HOLY WEEK RETREAT

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Our New Web Site...

Welcome to the new web page of The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) - as we begin the celebration of our 20th anniversary. If it is your first visit I hope it will be a memorable part of your spiritual quest. It can also be an ongoing source of support, friendship and stimulation for your ongoing journey and daily practice of meditation.

Sign up as a member and you can choose what regular communications or information you would like to receive.

In time, we will be adding new features to enrich the shared pilgrimage of meditation and the ways that we together bring the fruits of the practice to the world. Greg Ryan is our webmaster and Adriano Massi designs and updates the site. They welcome your comments, suggestions and contributions

Many people who start to meditate speak of it as a 'coming home' experience. We hope each time you visit WCCM.org you will feel that too. A Happy and Peaceful 2011!

Laurence Freeman OSB
 

Christmas Message 2010 - Laurence Freeman

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Mother and Child, Ladakh India   

December 24th 2010

Dearest Friends,

This year as always, the timeless Christmas story speaks to us and enlightens the listening heart at many levels.  There is the simplicity of the story and the unfathomable mystery of what it is saying. So, too, the story of our own lives, as we have lived them to this point, can be told in a few words; but no words can express their meaning and the wonder of our joys and sufferings, failures and discoveries. There is the human fragility and marginality of the characters, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the Shepherds – none of them among the powerful ones of the world. And yet through and around them is the presence of God speaking His Word in a silence that brings down the mighty from their thrones and humbles our own chattering egos.

In the story there is both a tenderness and a mighty toughness and resilience. We feel deep emotion and yet contemplate a reality that takes us beyond sentiment and emotion, to a place of truth and love in which all desire is fulfilled and all that is incomplete is led to completion. Read more »

2011 WCCM Monthly Calendar

2011 Calendar"RECOGNISING" - The 2011 World Community monthly calendar

The photographs in this calender were taken by Fr Laurence Freeman OSB during his visits within The World Community for Christian Meditation. The accompanying words are excerpted from Fr John Main's teachings. Community dates are listed for 2011 as well as the major Christian holy days and feasts.

"The essence of community is a recognition of and deep
reverence for the other." (John Main)

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