David Frenette - Contemplative Outreach
David Frenette - Contemplative Outreach
David Frenette - Contemplative Outreach
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<strong>David</strong> <strong>Frenette</strong><br />
<strong>David</strong> <strong>Frenette</strong> has taught Centering<br />
Prayer under Fr. Thomas Keating’s<br />
guidance since 1984, including as a<br />
trainer for long-term practitioners in<br />
<strong>Contemplative</strong> <strong>Outreach</strong>. He cofounded<br />
and co-led a Centering Prayer<br />
retreat community for ten years. He<br />
now teaches and gives spiritual direction<br />
at the Center for <strong>Contemplative</strong><br />
Living in Denver, is an Adjunct Faculty<br />
in the Religious Studies Department at<br />
Naropa University, and has an M.A. in<br />
Counseling Psychology.<br />
www.incarnationalcontemplation.com<br />
Learn How to Deepen<br />
Your Centering Prayer<br />
<strong>David</strong> <strong>Frenette</strong> is teaching a new, unique and<br />
transformative nine-day retreat on how to deepen<br />
Centering Prayer into contemplation.<br />
In addition to being an intensive Centering<br />
Prayer retreat, held in silence, this event also provides<br />
in-depth instruction on how to pray for your<br />
entire spiritual life journey. You will learn how to<br />
better practice Centering Prayer, and the ways to<br />
go beyond your current level of spiritual development.<br />
This retreat training provides guidance and encouragement<br />
for Centering Prayer practitioners,<br />
particularly those who sometimes feel stuck in their<br />
practice, discouraged by their thoughts or struggles<br />
to find God (all of us!), and for anyone who wants<br />
to take their practice to the next level.<br />
These teachings are specifically geared towards<br />
providing practical help for people at all degrees<br />
of experience—beginning, intermediate and<br />
advanced.<br />
These instructions and experiences help you<br />
open to God’s life in your contemplative practice,<br />
enfolding your own efforts to find God in the<br />
abundance of Christ’s grace.<br />
Let yourself be found<br />
in your deepest center by the living God.<br />
DEEPER CENTER,<br />
LIVING PRAYER<br />
with<br />
<strong>David</strong> <strong>Frenette</strong><br />
March 16-24, 2012<br />
<strong>Contemplative</strong> <strong>Outreach</strong> is offering a<br />
special Nine-Day Intensive Silent<br />
Centering Prayer Retreat<br />
at the Garrison Institute —<br />
a beautiful retreat facility on<br />
the Hudson River in New York State
Four Ways of<br />
Deepening Centering Prayer<br />
Learn how to deepen your Centering<br />
Prayer into contemplation. Discover how<br />
your Centering Prayer practice can develop<br />
so that you can integrate prayer into activity,<br />
move through dark nights, and serve others<br />
more easily.<br />
“Love one another as I have<br />
loved you.” (John 13:34)<br />
Help for Your Centering Prayer<br />
Learn time-tested contemplative attitudes<br />
and mindsets that will bring ease and joy to<br />
your practice, improving it and making it<br />
much more effective.<br />
“Be transformed by the renewal<br />
of your mind.” (Rm 12:2)<br />
Open to God’s Grace in Your Prayer<br />
Learn how to better receive the gift of<br />
Christ’s presence and action so that you<br />
do not feel stuck struggling alone in your<br />
practice. Experience what it means to pray<br />
with God instead of search for God.<br />
“It is in God that we live and move and<br />
have our being.” (Acts 17:12)<br />
Retreat Program<br />
• Daily teachings on how to deepen your<br />
contemplative practice<br />
• Guided meditations that bring the<br />
material to life in your own experience<br />
• Discussions, questions and answers<br />
• Three gatherings each day for Centering<br />
Prayer in-common<br />
• Private meetings with the teacher and<br />
retreat staff<br />
• Solitude and silence in community<br />
• Free time for individual spiritual needs<br />
• Handouts on ways of deepening practice<br />
To register go to:<br />
www.contemplativeoutreach.org/DCLP2012<br />
Or phone the <strong>Contemplative</strong> <strong>Outreach</strong><br />
Resource Center at<br />
(973) 838-3384<br />
Retreat Facility<br />
The Garrison Institute is located in<br />
Garrison, New York in a former Capuchin<br />
monastery overlooking the Hudson River.<br />
Set on 95 beautiful acres in a park-like<br />
setting, the large renovated building offers<br />
simple and quiet accommodations in private,<br />
double or dorm rooms. Renowned for<br />
its food and hospitality, the Institute is 50<br />
miles north of New York City and one mile<br />
from the train to Grand Central Station, with<br />
connections to all the New York airports.<br />
For more information on the Garrison Institute,<br />
including a photo tour, go to:<br />
www.garrisoninstitute.org<br />
Program Cost & Lodging Options<br />
Register by 12/12 Register after 12/12<br />
Dorm Room: $780 $805<br />
Double Room: $900 $925<br />
Single Room: $1020 $1045<br />
Registering to do a “house job” reduces the total<br />
cost by an additional $48. Payment plans are<br />
possible. Through the generosity of donors a limited<br />
number of partial scholarships are available.<br />
Please register by March 5, 2012
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