The Center for Contemplative Practice
A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality

October 2020

Stone-walled, dim room with warm light and large text: “Come and Rest” above a verse inviting weary souls to find rest in Me.

YOU ARE THE ANAWIM

1. For the Anawim, a collection of readers or listeners who fit the profile of the Old Testament concept of the “poor ones of God,” I want to offer all of my writings (1,250 blogs) and books (67 so far). To those who have fallen through the cracks of life and may not even realize […]

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Stone-walled, dim room with warm light and large text: “Come and Rest” above a verse inviting weary souls to find rest in Me.

ONLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

I wanted to share this website with you because one of the great illuminations of my life is the realization that, no matter what our station in life, what life throws at me, I am in control of my destiny if I join my will and free choice with that of Christ and the Catholic […]

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