
Experience of pure attention
The gift of sharing meditation as part of our Christian tradition of prayer, is that it allows these other forms
Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation
Bonnevaux
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.
The gift of sharing meditation as part of our Christian tradition of prayer, is that it allows these other forms
We have to face the fact, as religious people, that many of the forms of prayer or expressions of prayer
So discovering this highly distracted state of mind at the first level of consciousness, is universal. That is one of
I’m sitting here in Bonnevaux, our International Center in France and I am inviting you to come to join us
Dear Brothers and Sisters I have just come up to my room after our daily reading together of the Rule.
Resurrection is the result of love entering into what has died and calling it back to life
St Benedict thought that ‘life should be a continuous Lent’. As we come to the end of it, we might think we have heard enough about Lent or we might just be beginning to understand what it is about.
How many of our neighbours or colleagues have any idea of what we are doing these days?
The Triduum begins: three days compressing time into one progressively flowering moment of revelation.
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