2025-03-14: Centering Prayer & Welcoming Prayer

With Mary Lapham and Gwen Pickering

March 14 - 16, 2025

Date and Time Details: Friday, March 14, 2025, 4:00pm to Sunday, March 16, 2025, 3:00pm

Location: Benedictine Center of St. Paul's Monastery

Address: 2675 Benet Road, Saint Paul, MN, USA

Contact: Benedictine Center
benedictinecenter@stpaulsmonastery.org
651-777-7251

  • $250.00 – Program Price; Includes overnight accommodations and meals
  • $150.00 – Commuter- No Overnight Stay; includes program and meals
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Centering Prayer and Welcoming Prayer Retreat

 In Centering Prayer, we consent to God’s presence and action in stillness.  In the Welcoming Prayer, we consent to God’s presence and action in ordinary, everyday settings. Both of these prayers help us to deepen our relationship with God and dismantle the emotional programs of the false-self system and heal the wounds of a lifetime. There will be several centering prayer sits as well as sessions for learning and practicing the Welcoming Prayer throughout the retreat.
  • Spiritual Directors Mary Lapham and Gwen Pickering will be facilitating the Centering Prayer and Welcoming Prayer Retreat.
  • Participants are invited to join the Sisters for prayer, following the daily schedule of Liturgy of the Hours.
  • All meals and a private room are included.

This silent retreat is for people who have been practicing Centering Prayer for at least 6 months.

 

 

About the Leaders

Mary Lapham

Mary Lapham, MEd, has been in a 12-step program as an Adult Child since 1984. Her 11th Step practice led her to Centering Prayer in 1996. She is a commissioned Presenter for both Centering and Welcoming Prayer. She leads a Welcoming/Centering Prayer hour in the meditation chapel on Zoom every Thursday at 11:00 (Thomas Keating […]

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Gwen Pickering

Gwen is is accepting new directees. Given the fact that I have ADHD, failed second grade, and struggled through the early years of school, it is a surprise even to me that I have a masters degree in counseling. After many years of leading marriage retreats with my husband and teaching about relationships, I heard […]

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