Nebraska Contemplative Outreach

exists to practice and share the method of Centering Prayer

as taught by Father Thomas Keating and Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.

Contact Information

If you would like to be added to our email list to receive email notifications and registration information for Nebraska Contemplative Outreach local events and retreats, please email us.

centering@nebraskacontemplativeoutreach.org

Co-Coordinators for Nebraska Contemplative Outreach

Marilyn Buresh and Diane Kaiser

        

1. A brief history of Nebraska Contemplative Outreach
   

2. Thomas Hall and his wife Colleen learned Centering Prayer from Father Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O.  They began showing the Spiritual Journey video tapes of Fr. Keating's talks at local Catholic parishes, the first being Mary Our Queen Church in 1988, and a Centering Prayer group was formed there by Ellie McNulty.  In July 1989, Fr. Thomas Keating organized the first Presenter Training and Thomas and Colleen Hall were commissioned to offer workshops on Centering Prayer.  About that time Nebraska Contemplative Outreach was set up and is characterized as a lay volunteer organization associated with Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.  Father Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., did a workshop at Creighton University in the 1990's and Father Thomas Keating has been to Omaha a couple of times (in 1990 and in 2004) at our invitation to speak.
   

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