Journey To The Center: A Lenten Passage

by Thomas Keating

From the stark beginning of Ash Wednesday to the joyous climax of Easter Sunday, these meditations will feed your faith, renew your hope, and bless abundantly your journey of love.

Genres: Spirituality, Prayer

118 pages, Hardcover

First published December 25, 1998

About the author

Keating entered the Cistercian Order in Valley Falls, Rhode Island in January, 1944. He was appointed Superior of St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado in 1958, and was elected abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusetts in 1961. He returned to Snowmass after retiring as abbot of Spencer in 1981, where he established a program of ten-day intensive retreats in the practice of Centering Prayer, a contemporary form of the Christian contemplative tradition.

He is one of three architects of Centering Prayer, a contemporary method of contemplative prayer, that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in 1975. Frs. William Menninger and Basil Pennington, also Cistercian monks, were the other architects.
n 1984, Fr. Thomas Keating along with Gustave Reininger and Edward Bednar, co-founded Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., an international, ecumenical spiritual network that teaches the practice of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, a method of prayer drawn from the Christian contemplative tradition. Contemplative Outreach provides a support system for those on the contemplative path through a wide variety of resources, workshops, and retreats.
Fr. Keating currently lives at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado.

Reviews

[Tom Canuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful reflection book for the season of Lent with some brilliant quotes from Keating’s famous works such as The Mystery of Christ. It was the best Lenten reflection book I’ve ever read to this point. Highly recommend for anyone in the future! :)

[Eileen · Rating 3 out of 5]

© 1999. ***½ . This book is a collection of quotes from Keating's many books arranged for reading each day in Lent. Hard to know how to describe it. It has some real wisdom but also some things that are so sectarian as to be generally irrelevant. Some of the quotes had nothing to do with the scripture passages they were supposedly illuminating.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent Lent devotional consisting of daily excerpts from books written about the contemplative life by Cistercian monk Thomas Keating, one of the founders of the contemporary centring prayer movement in the 1970s.

Lock it in for next year if that's your thing.

[Dawne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a beautiful devotion to read during Lent. We had deep discussions in our small groups from this text.

[Contemplative Outreach Hawaii · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suggested for those continuing a practice of Centering Prayer. A Lenten reader.