Welcome to Contemplative Outreach St. Louis

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Be Still and Know that I am God.
Psalm 46:10

Events

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up – Session 2

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up – Session 2

May 22, 2025 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis presents: Do you feel like the world is spinning by, and you’re longing for the stillness and stability of […]

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The Shaping Silence: Contemplation as a Path to Becoming

The Shaping Silence: Contemplation as a Path to Becoming

May 28, 2025 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

The EnLIGHTenment Series Encountering divinity means encountering divine honesty, divine hope, divine love, divine sensitivity, etc.  These sacred encounters become the wellspring of those same divine qualities within us.  This […]

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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up – Session 3

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up – Session 3

May 29, 2025 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis presents: Do you feel like the world is spinning by, and you’re longing for the stillness and stability of […]

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An Introduction to Centering Prayer: Exploring an 11th Step Practice

An Introduction to Centering Prayer: Exploring an 11th Step Practice

May 31, 2025 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM

For all those practicing any 12-Step Program, the simple yet powerful method of Centering Prayer, when used as an 11th Step practice, can open the heart to a deeper spiritual […]

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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up – Session 4

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up – Session 4

June 5, 2025 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM

Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop Follow Up Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis presents: Do you feel like the world is spinning by, and you’re longing for the stillness and stability of […]

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12 Step Follow Up – Session 1

12 Step Follow Up – Session 1

June 7, 2025 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Centering Prayer as 11 Step PracticeFollow Up – Session 1 Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis and CP 12 Step Outreach presents: A 4-Series Follow-Up This four-session series provides formation in […]

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Resources

Centering Prayer Intro Workshop

May 10th, 2025
8:45am gather – 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Are you looking for a way to explore or deepen your relationship with God? Join us for this workshop to learn the basics of Centering Prayer.

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You’re Invited!

Join a Prayer Group or 11th Step Meeting

Individuals who have attended the introduction to Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Welcoming Prayer or Beginners are invited to attend an existing group that supports those on the contemplative prayer journey.

SOUL TREKKERS

Contemplative Ikebana

Saturday April 5th, 2025
12:45pm Gathering 1pm – 3:30pm
Bridging Silence and Transformation: A Centering Prayer & Ikebana Workshop

All skill levels welcome!

Soul Trekkers

Forest Bathing Walk

Saturday – March 1st, 2025 8:30am to 11:00am
Note New Location

Emmenegger Nature Park

Artist - Edward Hays
Artist – Edward Hays

Silent Saturday

with Lectio Divina

February 8th, 2025 – 8:30am to 11:00am
Lent is one of the most grace-filled seasons of the year. It is a sacred time that encourages prayer and intensifies our longing. Please register and Walk Ins Welcome!

Annual Epiphany
Celebration & Potluck

We are sorry to cancel this again due to weather forecast for Sunday.
Join us for a peaceful Contemplative Service which includes Centering Prayer followed by a joyful Potluck Celebration as we come together to celebrate the Light of Christ. A hybrid event – Zoom and In Person

Soul Trekkers

Poetry, Centering Prayer and Journaling

January 4th, 2025 – 1:45pm – 4:00pm
Join us for an afternoon of poetry and journaling with Poet Dwight Bitikofer who will guide us in this contemplative experience.

The Desert’s Roots

Emptiness, Silence & Hiddenness of Self

featuring Belden C. Lane
This spectacular event featuring the wisdom of the desert Mothers and Fathers of the contemplative journey was recorded during the 2024 EnLIGHTenment Series and is now available to all here.

Centering Prayer Workshop

Back to Basics

February 22, 2024 – 8:30am to 2:30pm
In this introductory workshop, you will learn the basics of Centering Prayer and experience it in a guided setting. Refresh your practice and receive support.

EnLIGHTenment Series

Exploring the Transformational Journey – The Spiral Staircase

October 30th, 2024 – 5:30pm to 8:30pm
With Susan Komis
A deeper explanation and discussion of spiritual growth as illustrated by the diagram that Fr. Thomas Keating presents in Intimacy With God.

Centering Prayer Intro Workshop Follow Up

May 15th, 22nd, 29th, & June 5th 2025
6:30pm to 8:00pm
This is designed to give a broader and firmer foundation for the centering prayer practice for new and longtime practitioners.

Living Flame II

7 Month Formation Program on Saturdays

May 17th, 2025
“Dark Night of the Soul”
with Jenny Adamson
The Living Flame Program is an extraordinary program for Contemplative Outreach chapters and prayer groups.

EnLIGHTenment Series

The Shaping Silence: Contemplation as a Path to Becoming

May 28st, 2025
Gathering at 5:30 pm | Program: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Frank Krebs is going to witness to the way our contemplative practice affects (transforms really) our heart.  By “our heart,” he says that he means the center of what makes us a human person. 

Introduction to Centering Prayer:
Exploring an 11th Step Practice

May 31st, 2025
Gathering at 8:15 am | Program: 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
For all those practicing any 12-Step Program, the simple yet powerful method of Centering Prayer, when used as an 11th Step practice, can open the heart to a deeper spiritual awakening.

Silent Saturday

with Lectio Divina

June 14th, 2025 – 8:30am to 11:00am
Contemplative Outreach St. Louis invites you to come help create a safe and quiet space where we can rest in the divine presence, bearing witness to our individual and collective need to do so.

OPENING TO THE UNIVERSAL CHRIST

THE INTER-SPIRITUAL INVITATION OF CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT

July 18th – 21st, 2025
Registration is now open for the upcoming retreat with Keith Kristich, the founder of Closer Than Breath.

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