This e-course is an updated version of one previously offered through Spirituality & Practice. This new one is facilitated by Mary Dwyer, Dave Dierig, Cherry Haisten, Mary Lapham, Jim McElroy, Logan Jones.
In our lives, God meets us in our bodies -- the earthly homes that accompany us from birth to death. Christian scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit dwells within us, in the deepest core of our being. The Welcoming Prayer is a method of consenting to the presence and action of the Holy Spirit -- the Divine Indwelling. Through the Welcoming Prayer, we consent specifically to what we experience in our bodies as we react to what happens to us and around us in daily life. The Welcoming Prayer helps us greet these automatic reactions with compassion and replace them with more measured and loving responses.
If we practice Centering Prayer (or another silent prayer practice) for 20 minutes twice a day or an hour in every 24 hours, the Welcoming Prayer gives us a practice for the other 23 hours. It is a "letting go" into the present moment amid the activity of ordinary life. The Welcoming Prayer helps dismantle the emotional programs of the false-self system and heals the wounds of a lifetime, the source of our unwanted behavior, by addressing the wounds where they are stored — in our bodies.
Practicing the Welcoming Prayer gives us space to make choices free of the false-self system, to respond rather than react to the present moment. Through the action of the Holy Spirit, practice empowers us to take appropriate action as freely and lovingly as possible in any situation that presents itself.
"To welcome and to let go is one of the most radically loving faith-filled gestures we can make in each moment of each day. It is an open-hearted embrace of all that is in ourselves and in the world."
— Mary Mrozowski, creator of the Welcoming Prayer
Join us to learn, deepen, or renew this practical and profound prayer. The more we experience the Welcoming Prayer, the more we realize how much we need it. Repeated practice opens us more deeply to God's healing and transformation; unites body, mind and spirit; and takes us beneath the surface of our lives into a deeper consent in the very fiber of our being.
This e-course includes these components:
- Videos covering the essentials including the method of the Welcoming Prayer and key underpinnings of the practice
- 12 emails reviewing core teachings and supporting practices.
- Step-by-step instructions on the Welcoming Prayer with a guided audio version to assist your practice.
- A one-hour replay Zoom (previously recorded when the retreat was first given) featuring the e-course leaders from Contemplative Outreach
- Mini-practices to root the Welcoming Prayer in your daily life
Partial scholarships are available through Contemplative Outreach here.
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