Links to

Prayer Sites

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Make a Sacred Space in your day, and spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day.  This site is produced by two Jesuits in Dublin, Ireland.  It has logged well over a half million hits since its inception Ash Wednesday 1999, close to 4,000 per day.  Sacred Space addresses the three major difficulties many contemporary men and women have with prayer:  they don't have the time, don't know where to begin, and the kinds of formula prayers they were most familiar with as children now seem inappropriate for them as adults.  The site has no ads, clutter, or cookies.  It is about getting in touch with the presence of God in your life in the privacy and intimacy that you have in front of your computer.

Contemplative Outreach is the home page of Fr. Thomas Keating, who made Centering Prayer popular.  Centering Prayer is a method of prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of God's presence, traditionally called contemplative prayer.  It consists of responding to the Spirit of Christ by consenting to God's presence and action within.  It furthers the development of contemplative prayer by quieting our faculties to cooperate with the gift of God's presence.  Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina (praying the scriptures), the Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross, and St. Terese of Avila.

Lectio Divina is another Centering Prayer website, but from the Assumption Abbey in Missouri.  In addition to many articles on Centering Prayer, it also gives one the opportunity to order their yummy fruitcake (one of our parishioners said it is incredibly wonderful)!

Taizé is an ecumenical, international community founded in 1940 in Taizé, France by Brother Roger.  Reconciliation between Christians is at the heart of Taizé's vocation; however, this has never been seen as an end in itself.  Instead it is hoped that Christians will be a leaven of reconciliation between people, of trust among nations, and of peace on earth.

Please join on this site with the world-wide community in saying an ongoing rosary.