<!-- Alternate content for non-supporting browsers --> <table width="570" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> </td> <td valign="top"><p><br> <img src="images/christian_text.gif" width="203" height="30"><br> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%"> </td> <td valign="top"><p align="center"> </p> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <th colspan="2" scope="row"><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="3"><i><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The all important aim in Christian Meditation is to allow God’s mysterious presence within us</font></i><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i> to become more and more not only a reality, </i></font></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i> but the reality which gives meaning, share and purpose<br> to everything we do, to everything we are . . .</i></font></font> </p></th> </tr> <tr> <th width="68%" scope="row"> </th> <td width="32%"><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>John Main, OSB </b></font></i></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><font size="2">As an outgrowth of our Sunday morning classes on Mysticism, Christian Spirituality, and Christian Meditation, we offer an opportunity to practice what we teach. Join our contemplative prayer group that will practice Christian Meditation here at All Saints’.</font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><font size="2"> Set out on the journey with your fellow parishioners as we use meditation as a tool</font><font size="2"> </font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;"><font size="2">to deepen our pilgrimage with Christ. </font></p> <p align="center"><b> <span class="style1">Sunday Meditation is 8:00 a.m. in the School Music Room</span><br> </b> which is just east of the amphitheatre across from Manning Hall.</p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><b><span class="style1">Summer Meditation is at 9:00 a.m. (thru Labor Day) </span></b><br> </p> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <th width="41%" scope="row"><img src="images/christianpic.gif" width="196" height="294"></th> <td width="59%"><div align="center"> <table width="296" height="16" border="2" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000"> <tr> <th bgcolor="#F7D5A5" scope="row"><p align="center"> The Simple Teaching of Christian Meditation: <br> <i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">How to Meditate</font> </i></p> <p align="center"><i> <font size="1">From the World Community for Christian Meditation </font></i></p> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Sit down. Sit still and upright. Close your eyes lightly. Sit relaxed but alert. Breathe calmly and regularly. Silently, interiorly begin to say a single word. We recommend the prayer-phrase MA-RA-NA-THA. Recite it as our syllables of equal length. Listen to it as you say it, gently but continuously. Do not think or imagine anything— spiritual or otherwise. If thoughts and images come, these are distractions at the time of meditation , so keep returning to simply saying the word. Meditate each morning and evening for between twenty and thirty minutes.<br> <br> *“Maranatha” is Aramaic for “Come, Lord Jesus”</font> </div></th> </tr> </table> </div></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"> </p> <div align="center"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b> </b></font></p> </div></td> </tr> </table>
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