Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

"Prayer in the events of each day and each moment is one of the secrets of the kingdom revealed to ‘little children,' to the servants of Christ, to the poor of the Beatitudes. It is right and good to ...

As Sister Thomas Bernard MacConnell puts it, the aim is to "listen" attentively, not just with the ears, but with the eyes, heart and soul. Very quietly, practitioners of contemplative prayer try to ...

Long ago, Daniel Berrigan told me a tragic story about being invited to speak to a packed church of cloistered nuns somewhere on the East Coast in 1965. They wanted him to read from his latest book of ...

For Jerome Kodell, the practice of silent prayer has enriched his life. Some call it contemplative prayer -- a way of seeking a deeper relationship with God through stillness and silence. As abbot of ...

For some this may be obvious. However, we know that the Mesilas Yesharim says that sometimes it is the most obvious things that need the most attention. So let’s begin. The Jewish people have two ...