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 ...

Zuercher says the Enneagram helps people understanding something very basic about their personalities, "a basic reality, a basic incarnation." She tells Tom Fox that the Enneagram, therefore, "is a ...

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 ...

Theologians often describe prayer as a dialogue, but for some people it’s more of a monologue. The supplicant makes requests or recites an established prayer. But in a practice known as contemplative ...

It is perhaps the one thing the world’s major religions have in common: The practice of prayer. Next week, the Rev. William Meninger, a Trappist monk from Snowmass, Colo., will lead “The Loving Search ...

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 ...