Nebraska
contemplative outreach
WELCOME
Nebraska Contemplative Outreach would like to welcome
all who practice Centering Prayer
and those who desire a deeper relationship with God
through contemplative prayer.
Nebraska Contemplative Outreach
exists to practice and share the method of Centering Prayer
as taught by Father Thomas Keating and Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.
CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH, LTD.
The intent of Contemplative Outreach
is to foster the process of transformation in Christ in one another
through the practice of Centering Prayer.
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7.The contemplative dimension of the Gospel manifests as an ever-deepening union with Christ and the practical caring for others that flows from this relationship. It reveals the deeper meaning of Christ’s life and teaching.
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8.Our relationship with the living Christ is the bond uniting us together in mutual love.
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9.While formed by our respective denominations, we are united in our common search for God and our experience of Christ through Centering Prayer.
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10.We identify with the Christian contemplative heritage in which Centering Prayer is rooted. We recognize this heritage as the common ground for Christian unity.
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-- Contemplative Outreach Theological Principles 7, 8, 9, 10
The logo used by Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. as shown above, is from the monogram of the Job’s Redeemer which is the symbol of patient waiting. It depicts:
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the alpha and omega, a symbol of God as the beginning and the end;
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a cross, a symbol of our salvation;
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flowers, a symbol of the abundance of life and the resurrection;
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a circle, a sign of ongoing process.
This symbol has been seen in several ancient locations: on an ancient church in the land of Uz where Job resided; in old Jerusalem near the original stairs to the Temple; on the Southern Wall of the Old City near the Huldah Gates; and at a church in Galilee.
Nebraska Contemplative Outreach
