A new kind of spontaneity
If we can learn to see reality, it heals us. Just the seeing of it, just the living with it
Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation
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With Irish and English roots, Laurence Freeman was educated by the Benedictines and studied English Literature at New College, Oxford University. Before entering monastic life, he worked with the United Nations in New York, in Banking and Journalism. He is Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) a global, inclusive contemplative community.
Fr. Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. His is the director and spiritual guide of the World Community for Christian Meditation. John Main was his teacher and Fr. Laurence assisted him in establishing the foundations of the Community. Fr. Laurence is the author of a number of books on Christian Meditation. He travels extensively giving presentations and leading Christian Meditation Retreats.
If we can learn to see reality, it heals us. Just the seeing of it, just the living with it
To love ourselves means to live a life of this deep gratitude for being, and it gives sense to the
To love ourselves means to love God. It means to experience a deep, inner gratitude for the mystery of our
https://youtu.be/1PUrhQUZ0Cc Fr Laurence Freeman That’s one of the most important questions for our humanity at this stage of its evolution.
Happy Easter. And finally, we can say Alleluia again! One word says it all.
For some time death remains very hypothetical in the human panorama of life. After the brief immortality of youth, and with our first experience of losing someone we love, death seems an increasing possibility.
From childhood, the gospel descriptions of the last days and hours of Jesus’ life have gripped and fascinated me as something of supreme importance and meaning. Each part of the story is part of me.
The idea of sacrifice leads us deep into how human beings live and understand life. We are prepared to renounce ourselves for the sake of our children, country, cause or friends we love. Parenthood is a sacrificial offering extending over many years.
Aren’t these two of the kind of experiences which we can’t create or control but only undergo and, to some extent, perhaps, share with others whom we trust?
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