This course focuses on personal contemplative prayer as essential for our relationship with God and the soil out of which healthy and effective ministry grows. The course covers Biblical teaching on prayer; the contemplative tradition arising from the early desert fathers and mothers; spirituality, theology and psychology of prayer; and various Christian traditions of prayer including lectio divina, Ignatian prayer, other forms of scripture prayer, centering prayer, Christian meditation, and the awareness examen.The course concludes with suggestions for planting and growing a prayer-based parish ministry.
This course will be held at St. John's Convent, 223 Cummer Ave., North York, on Saturdays, 9 am - 4 pm, Sep 16, Oct 7, Nov 4, 25, and Dec 9, with an optional art day on Oct 28.
