We have a group regularly practicing centering prayer, currently on Zoom. Please email our office at office@spiritofgracepdx.org to get the Zoom link.

Contemplative prayer is an ancient Christian practice that was revived in the 1980s mainly by Fr. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk. Centering prayer is a way of preparing for the gift of contemplation. Fr. Thomas says:

“We surrender to the attraction of interior silence, tranquility, and peace. We do not try to feel anything, reflect about anything. Without effort, without trying, we sink into this Presence, letting everything else go. Let love alone speak; the simple desire to be one with the Presence, to forget self, and to rest in the Ultimate Mystery ... We surrender to the attraction to be still, to be loved, just to be.”

Remember that God is ever present within and around us. We pray that you feel connected to the community, to creation, to the Divine.