Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis has been serving the contemplative community in Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois since 1989. We are a chapter of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., an international spiritual network with offices in Butler, N.J. Our mission is to teach the method of Centering Prayer and to support those whose Spiritual Journey includes a practice of this prayer.
1. Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your intention to consent to God’s presence and action within.
2. Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed, settle briefly, and silently introduce the sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God’s presence and action within.
3. When engaged with your thoughts, return ever-so-gently to the sacred word.
4. At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence with eyes closed for a couple of minutes.
Find a Centering Prayer Group near you and learn about the many classes, retreats and special events offered by Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis.
Join Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis for an Intensive/Post-Intensive Retreat on Sunday, August 21st to Friday, August 26th, 2022 at King’s House in Belleville, Illinois. We welcome Rev. Matthew Flatley as our retreat director. This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey through silence, solitude and community.
Save the date! Join us as we come together for the next Go Deeper session: “House of God; Womb of God” on Saturday, July 9, 2022, from 8:30 am – 1:00 pm, in person at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Louis, MO.
Go Deeper is an ongoing program designed to deepen and inform our spiritual life. Each session will speak to our yearning to open to and experience our loving God more deeply.
Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis (COSTL) supports individuals practicing or drawn to practicing Centering Prayer. We do this through our programs, our resources, and our prayer groups, all of which are described on our web site. Please consider serving others while deepening your own engagement with our Centering Prayer community.
The library catalog of over 550 books has been updated and it’s now super easy to borrow a book from the COSTL Lending Library housed at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Louis, MO. Continue reading for how to access the church and the library during COVID.
Are you looking to Center with others in this time of social-distancing? Have you tried the Contemplative Outreach meditation on-line?
Contemplative Outreach along with the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) has created four different Zoom chapels that allow us to center or meditate with others.
Here’s the link to get you started.