Contemplative Outreach supports the practice of Centering Prayer, as taught by Father Thomas Keating. At this time, we have the following Contemplative Outreach Centering Prayer Groups in Lexington and Danville, Kentucky. All are Welcome to join us.

Please be sure to check with us since the times and places may change.

 

Lexington

Monday
St. Martha's Church at Word of Hope
1870 Armstrong Mill Road
7:00 pm 
Contact Jan Carter

Wednesday
Christ Church Cathedral
166 Market Street
5:00 pm 
Contact Elizabeth Conrad

Thursday
Pax Christi Church
4110 Victoria Way
7:00 pm 
Contact Wayne Moore

Friday
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
533 East Main Street
7:00 am
Contact Jan Carter

Holy Spirit Parish Newman Center
320 Rose Lane
1:00 pm
Contact Wayne Moore

Saturday
St. Micheal's Episcopal Church
2025 Bellefonte Dr.
10:00 am
Contact Kay Scarborough

Danville

Thursday
First Christian Church
555 East Lexington Ave.

Danville, KY
3:45 pm
Contact Paula Reister

 

Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience God’s presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship.

 

Centering Prayer is not meant to replace other kinds of prayer. Rather, it adds depth of meaning to all prayer and facilitates the movement from more active modes of prayer – verbal, mental or affective prayer – into a receptive prayer of resting in God. Centering Prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation with Christ to communion with Christ.

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Centering Prayer is an ancient method of Christian prayer which prepares us to receive the gift of God’s presence, traditionally called contemplative prayer.