Our friends at Pullen asked me to extend this invitation to everyone at CUCC.
Bringing Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit Together
Please join us for a service of contemplative prayer at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 1800 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, on Monday, September 29 at 7:00 pm. The service will include music in the spirit of Taize, prayers, reflections, movement meditations and silence. All are welcome.
Contemplation: “A simple definition of contemplation is "loving presence to what is." In a Christian context, because we "live and move and have our being" in God, being present to things as they are involves encountering the Christ who "fills the whole creation" (Eph. 1:23). Christian contemplation means finding God in all things and all things in God. Because people use "contemplation" to describe especially profound qualities of prayer, we often associate it with silence and stillness. Classically, however, it means immediate open presence in the world, directly perceiving and lovingly responding to things as they really are. Thus contemplation is not necessarily quiet and still. Contemplation is an all-embracing quality of presence. In contemplation, one hopes to nurture a simple willingness to be open to God's movements, leadings, and invitations--a contemplative attitude.” (Excerpt from a Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Senior Staff Monograph)
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 1800 Hillsborough St., Raleigh
Monday, September 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
-submitted by Jane Smith
Bringing Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit Together
Please join us for a service of contemplative prayer at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 1800 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, on Monday, September 29 at 7:00 pm. The service will include music in the spirit of Taize, prayers, reflections, movement meditations and silence. All are welcome.
Contemplation: “A simple definition of contemplation is "loving presence to what is." In a Christian context, because we "live and move and have our being" in God, being present to things as they are involves encountering the Christ who "fills the whole creation" (Eph. 1:23). Christian contemplation means finding God in all things and all things in God. Because people use "contemplation" to describe especially profound qualities of prayer, we often associate it with silence and stillness. Classically, however, it means immediate open presence in the world, directly perceiving and lovingly responding to things as they really are. Thus contemplation is not necessarily quiet and still. Contemplation is an all-embracing quality of presence. In contemplation, one hopes to nurture a simple willingness to be open to God's movements, leadings, and invitations--a contemplative attitude.” (Excerpt from a Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Senior Staff Monograph)
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 1800 Hillsborough St., Raleigh
Monday, September 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
-submitted by Jane Smith