Advanced Centering Prayer Retreat

FILLING FAST

As we transition into Fall, come join us for an Advanced Centering Prayer Retreat. In the silence of community, we will have extended periods of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina. 

A daily conference and times for individual Soul Friending will be available. Prior centering prayer experience helpful.

Dates: Thursday, September 24 – Sunday, August 27
Time: Thursday at 6 p.m. – Sunday at 12 p.m. 
Facilitator: Mary Dwyer
Location: Mercy Spirituality Center
Fee: $425

Mary Dwyer is a long-time student of Fr. Thomas Keating and has been practicing Centering Prayer since the 1980s. In the early 1990s, she lived at Chrysalis House, a contemplative live-in community experiment blessed by Fr. Thomas in Warwick, NY. 

Her housemates included Mary Mrozowski, David Frenette, and Cathy McCarthy. The community lived according to a rule of life and became an incubator of practice and programs in the early years of Contemplative Outreach’s growth. 

It was her experience at Chrysalis House – what she refers to as her “inpatient” or “residential treatment time” – that proved to her that a life of prayer, consent and practice is real, stable and deeply rewarding. Mary Mrozowski taught her that a devoted life of prayer was the real work of life; what we did the rest of the time was just how we made a living. 

In 2008 she met her beloved Juan through the Living Flame program. She moved to Miami, FL in 2009 and they married. Juan retired and they moved back to Erie, PA in July, 2018. Mary is currently in private practice as an LCSW in the Erie area. She also is serving as a member of Welcoming Prayer Service Team. 

She previously has served on the Trustee Team (Governing Board); member of the Contemplative Outreach Faculty and Gift Committee; and Coordinator for the Living Flame program and Coordinator of the Miami Chapter. Mary now devotes her time between private practice and giving retreats and workshops on behalf of Contemplative Outreach throughout the US and internationally.

EXCITING NEW Centering Prayer Opportunities! You are invited  to our new recurring Friday morning COR_NY CP meetings every Friday Morning (began in December 2020). Please see details and link below.

What: COR_NY Weekly Zoom Centering Prayer Meeting

When: Every Friday Morning

Time: Please join at 7:45AM Prayer begins at 8:00 & ends at 9:00

Where: In your home Zoom room

How: Click on the blue link below

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Meeting ID: 836 5098 9715

Passcode: 623983

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2020-2021 CO_RNY Upcoming Events

Some EXCITING Opportunities Coming Very Soon!

Welcome and hope to see you with us.

COR_NY is offering our FIRST of continuing Zoom Centering Prayer meetings: Friday Dec 4, 2020 and ALL future Fridays at 8:00AM-9:00AM. Cheryl McElhatten, Tom Agness and Chris Phillips will rotate as Prayer Leaders. Everyone in our Chapter Google Group will receive an invitation which will have a blue highlighted link to click on. Please consider joining us and belonging to our large group prayer. Please see Technical Tips below if you are calling by phone.

Technical Tips for Joining a Zoom Meeting

1.If you have an email from Cheryl, Tom, or Chris, simply click on the zoom link highlighted in blue.

2. To join a zoom meeting from an internet capable device (smart phone or computer) just click on the blue link from the invite. You may be asked for the zoom meeting ID # and 6 Digit Passcode #.

3.You may also join zoom meetings by the telephone without internet. In this case you will need to enter a the ID # and Passcode #. You will be able to hear the meeting but not see it. And they will be able to hear you. To mute and unmute your audio press #6 on your phone keypad.

Are you interested in joining a Zoom Group?

1. You can call the group’s facilitator ahead of time that’s wonderful. They can tell you about their group’s format and customs.

2. Please arrive 15 minutes early to the zoom meeting, introduce yourself and be welcomed before the Centering Prayer begins. 

3, You may like to give a little background about you experience with Centering Prayer. If you are new to the method you may ask about the 4 guidelines before prayer begins. If you have been doing Centering Prayer all you may need is a review of this group’s format.

Would you like to get our COR_NY Google Groups Email Announcements?

If you are new to our COR_NY groups and would like to be included our Google Email Group to learn about events, new groups, and updates please contact Cheryl McElhatten at silvrfox@rochester.rr.com with your email address. Thank you.Contemplative Outreach of Rochester, NY is a local Chapter of Contemplative Outr

Photos From A Facilitator Meeting at the Church of the Assumption, 20 East Avenue, Fairport, NY.  Our facilitators met for prayer, sharing and a hierarchy-hangar and network-yarn exercise.

This hieratchy-hangar model shows how someone on the top has all the power and control and distributes the information,  policies  and  ideas to the people below for them to pass on in the same manner while the one or ones near the bottom have little or no voice; a top down process.

A Day for Centering Pray-ers at the Mercy Spirituality Center, 65 Highland Ave Rochester NY.  

                                                       Our Facilitators

Our Blessed Group from United in Prayer Day on March 18, 2017! What a sense of Unity today as we gathered in prayer and solidarity with our Contemplative Communities around the world. Thank You for sharing your light.

Nancy Tosch, Tom Agness, Terry Mirante, Dorothy Lindsay, Janie Marini, Sandy Banke, Adal and Margarite Henriquez

Nancy Tosch, Tom Agness, Terry Mirante, Dorothy Lindsay, Cheryl McElhatten, Sandy Banke, Adal and Margarite Henriquez