“What results from this inner awareness, this holy work, this spiritual journey, is a huge sense of freedom. This ability to transform our restless, unredeemed instincts is a hard-won prize. A lot of dying to one’s vain ego, to the need to be approved, to the imperative to success, must be done. There is no cheap grace, no discount resurrection."

- Daniel J.O’Leary, Prism of Love

My daily prayer is to strive, like Cynthia Bourgealt states in her book My Theology: 

"The first and most distinguishing characteristic of my work is that it's practiced-based. By this I mean that everything I think, know, or write about emerges out of a daily rule of life grounded in the classic Benedictine rhythm of ora et labora, 'prayer and work' anchored by two daily periods of sitting meditation, morning and evening." I believe that prayer allows us to surrender to God and rest within the joys and suffering of the world, our joys and suffering. We come to understand nonduality as the reality of "our".

Beginning in September, St. James Centering Prayer Group will be reading Cynthia's book noted above and opening our study time via ZOOM to our Chapter.  

If you are interested, and would like to be added to our ZOOM Invite, please contact me:
VictoriaE4COPCenteringPrayer@gmail.com

Save the date:  November 4th, 2023.  COP is hosting a Visioning Day Retreat of prayer, reflection, and creative faith sharing.  More details to follow in the October eNewsletter.