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The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, by Thomas Keating. Lantern Publishing, 2012.
For a quarter of a century, Trappist monk Fr. Thomas Keating has been contributing articles on Centering Prayer―the contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative tradition―to the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition.
The Thomas Keating Reader gathers for the first time thirty of those articles (some never published elsewhere) to offer a valuable overview of some of the main strands of Fr. Thomas’ thinking and practice on Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, and interreligious dialogue. Rich with insight and humanity, The Thomas Keating Reader offers a broad introduction to the concepts that have animated Contemplative Outreach and reveals the gifts and challenges of the practice of the
spiritual life.
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St. Joseph of Leonissa: February 4. 1556 - 1612.
Joseph was born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy and as a student in early adulthood, Joseph drew attention for his energy and virtue. Offered a nobleman’s daughter in marriage, Joseph refused and joined the Capuchins in his hometown in 1573 instead. Avoiding the safe compromises by which people sometimes undercut the gospel, Joseph denied himself hearty meals and
comfortable quarters as he prepared for ordination and a life of preaching.
In 1587, he went to Constantinople to take care of the Christian galley slaves working under Turkish masters. Imprisoned for this work, he was warned not to resume it on his release. He did and was again imprisoned and then condemned to death. Miraculously freed, he returned to Italy where he preached to the poor and reconciled feuding families as well as warring cities which had
been at odds for years. He was canonized in 1745.
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