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 practice can have the effect of transforming our hearts, helping us calibrate our hearts to qualities that are, well, divine.  By paying attention to our own experiences of this, we grow in appreciation of the gift that contemplation really is. 

At this event, Frank will witness to his own experience of contemplation, reflecting on how it shapes the personal traits he sees as essential to authentic conversations and interactions in general.

About the Presenter

Francis (“Frank”) Krebs, M.Div. is a retired local pastor at Sts. Clare & Francis ECC church in Webster Groves, a retired Presiding Bishop of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, continues to participate on the ECC Council of Bishops, and is a current member of the Governing Board of the National Council of Churches.  He is a student and a teacher of contemplative prayer.  Frank devotes much of his retirement to efforts at improving human relationships in various ways.  He is firmly convinced that contemplation is the foundation of authentic spiritual life and better human relations.  

“One way to think about contemplation is as an experience of the Great Mystery drawing us into a dance, an enjoyable, even thrilling, experience of togetherness, which then can and does rub off on the activity of our ordinary lives as a kind of lingering effect of our time in meditation.” 

— Frank Krebs

Location:

Kirkwood Community of Christ Church
830 N Kirkwood Rd.
Kirkwood,  MO  63122

This event is also available on zoom.  Registrants will receive the zoom information. (The day of the the event an email will be sent if the presenter offers handouts.)

 For any questions please email: enlightenment@centeringprayerstl.com 

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