These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

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St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

Thomas Keating’s centering prayer movement penetrated my midwestern evangelical world in the mid-1980s. I was a teenager—a serious, anxious, bookish one. I didn’t know the tradition of Christian ...

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Thomas Keating, a leading figure in contemplative practice, died October 25 at age 95. He spent his final days at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he developed what is now known as ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating and the Dalai Lama at a conference in Boston in 2012, in a scene from a documentary directed by Father Keating’s nephew Peter C. Jones. SPENCER, Mass. (CNS) — A funeral Mass ...

My faith journey has taken me to various dwelling places along the way as I searched for ways to connect more closely with God. I have learned that God — who is love— is with us and in all of creation ...