Father Nicholas Amato leads a guided 10-minute session of Centering Prayer in the Retreat Chapel at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery near Charleston, S.C. Sit down and join us.
I am a log-time daily meditator, beginng with Samantha and vipassana, more recently evolving toward centering prayer. This year I have decided to use names for Jesus, a new one each week. This week, the name is Immanuel. Best wishes and encouragement to everyone.
@ericblomgren683 It is Christian. Do the research. It dates back to the earliest times in the Catholic faith. The Protestant heretic Calvin was distrustful of anything spiritual. Today, we would say he was "left-brained," or materialistic, dualistic, concrete, based squarely in the physical brain, silenced the female gender that more easily comprehends contemplation. Calvinism is based on the german concept of brain, what it can see and express in words, visible reality only. The Mind can transcend physicality, it includes the spirit and the soul and the Holy Spirit. Calvinism is the basis of the Baptist belief system which does not trust any method of connecting with Hesus directly. Whereas, Catholics have the Eucharist, which Calvin denied. The Eucharist brings Catholics into a transcendent realm of spirituality. While it is not necessary fir Catholics to practice contemplative prayer, the renewal of it coincided exactly with the Charismatic Renewal in the U.S., around 1967. At that time, young teenage or young adult Catholics were trying to learn about this. They were hungry for access to God. This was a direct move of the Holy Spirit. Buddhist meditation Is not the same thing. Unfortunately, it was the "tares" growing up with the "wheat" that Jesus planted at the exact same time. Protestant colleges were actually teaching about "eastern pagan religions." Not Catholic colleges. So if you are Protestant, especially Baptist, you will never understand. It is not in your spiritual DNA. But any of the pseudo-Catholic faith practices, such as Lutheran or Anglican/Episcopalian will easily grasp this innately Catholic practice dating back to the earliest post-Resurrection appearances of Our Lord. Many Jewish youth were lured into and drawn toBuddhism. Because there is a meditation practice within Judaism. They later became Catholic. I learned from them directly the deep distinctions between true Christian or Catholic contemplation and pagan or nihilistic buddhism.
Thanks for a beautiful video offering the experience of Centering Prayer. I have been practicing for some years and just recently shared CP with the seminarians at the local seminary here in Havana. God bless you and your ministry of service! By the way, my mother's maiden name is Pringle (from Mississippi, but with roots in S. Carolina).
Thank you. This is meditation. Pray is said to be talking to God. Meditation is Listening to God. Sitting in the stillness , breathing, and listening (not to the mind, to the feeling of being in "Awe" of God. ❤💖
I thought that Prayer was talking to God It it reminds me of many years ago when I was on to yoga and meditation part of the occult. I don't mean to be rude but appears to be weird to me. Where is this kind of practice in the Bible.?
As crestons wife I pray according to God's word the way Jesus taught me to pray father in Jesus name. We are to die to self die to our old life. The Bible says don't go beyond what is written. Before we had the Bible we didn't. After we have the bible the Bible shows us how to pray as christians.
@@missygrrl This is Buddhist teaching! Has no part in Christianity! Do some research! The bell gives it away! "You, LORD, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs." Isaiah 2:6
The spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola that include contemplative prayer are programs with occult methodologies and techniques that are being introduced and practiced in churches, seminaries and youth rallies around the world. These exercises are taken from the old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions and are the antithesis of the meditation presented in God’s Word. Other examples of these practices are the Walk to Emmaus, Cursillo, Centering Prayer, Ignatian Awareness, Examen, chanting, biblical imagination, prayers of discernment, and the Jesus Prayer. Disguised Practice? Most evangelicals would immediately reject divination practices like the Ouija board, for example, and see it as a device for contacting evil spirit entities, which the Bible condemns and calls an abomination (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). But the Catholic Spiritual Exercises, such as contemplative prayer, appear to the uneducated in God’s Word less threatening as it is disguised under church related activities. The term “contemplative” means to think about something intently. So by the name, one would assume contemplative prayer to be earnest communication with God. However practitioners of these contemplative methods don’t do that. The goal of these practices is to get people beyond thinking and into the realm of “experiencing” God. A tutorial of this movement is The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola which introduces occult visualization. Sadly, these visualized apparitions are demons that take actual forms and usher the practitioner into the world of the occult and away from God. Not Biblical Contemplative prayer is not Biblical prayer because mystical “spirituality” downplays the role of faith in the Scriptures. It exalts “transcendental” experiences that raises the person from the earthly experiences into a supposedly higher “spiritual” stand. It is based on “experiences” rather than Bible based doctrine. God has given His Word and His Holy Spirit to help His children know what is of Him and what is not. The scriptures clearly teach that we should “give attendance… to doctrine” (1 Timothy 4:13). Faith that is based on mysticism is subjective and does not rely upon the absolute truths of God. The Word of God has been given to us as a light the leads us to the path of righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Trusting in feelings and experiences is not Biblical, we must “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). And “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). We do not see any of the apostles, prophets or disciples ever using contemplative prayer to connect with God. On the contrary all sorcery and divination were fully condemned (1 Samuel 15:10) and for practicing these evils, the Jews were led into captivity and destroyed (2 Kings 17:17; Jeremiah 14:14; Malachi 3:5). And the apostle Paul lists sorcery as one of many sinful practices that rob people from having eternal life: “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife . . . and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21).
If God is infinite and all-encompassing, then God is everything, and you're also him. If God is not everything, then he is limited, which by definition is not God.
Self-inflicted mindset believe emotional drug ...open to what? thinking that to God? or all kind of spirits as in the Eastern religions even to eval ones or own mind Idol thinking not thinking God? But Jesus was active in prayer or Our Father prayer is active or Rosary or even Peter was active by decision were I would go even with the doubts but active to whom he believes and why not only out of mind and Gospel or good news and life situations is active, not passive to work and reflect in us and from us and only stay in feeling with thinking that everything is God, of course, Eucharist is God presence because we know as Jesus said and left to us and different from everything and we have to have knowledge about it and think or stay in that knowledge but see the difference from the rest or our thoughts and feelings...look what says about it ex Buddhist now Christian Paul Williams on EWTN Journey Home with Marcus Grodi....remember you are not God and not equal to God and you have to have humility before God in Christianity
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I loved the chair open for me 🎉made me feel wonderful. Thank you for this . Hope for more . I love it ❤
I am a log-time daily meditator, beginng with Samantha and vipassana, more recently evolving toward centering prayer. This year I have decided to use names for Jesus, a new one each week. This week, the name is Immanuel. Best wishes and encouragement to everyone.
Thank you so much for this truly beautiful refresher on Centering Prayer! It was wonderful sitting in contemplation with you all! 💖🙏
Nicely done. Thank you for helping Christians everywhere reconnect to God through this largely lost method of prayer.❤️
This isn't a christian method, it is Buddhist and eastern mystic.
@ericblomgren683 It is Christian. Do the research. It dates back to the earliest times in the Catholic faith. The Protestant heretic Calvin was distrustful of anything spiritual. Today, we would say he was "left-brained," or materialistic, dualistic, concrete, based squarely in the physical brain, silenced the female gender that more easily comprehends contemplation. Calvinism is based on the german concept of brain, what it can see and express in words, visible reality only. The
Mind can transcend physicality, it includes the spirit and the soul and the Holy Spirit. Calvinism is the basis of the Baptist belief system which does not trust any method of connecting with Hesus directly. Whereas, Catholics have the Eucharist, which Calvin denied. The Eucharist brings Catholics into a transcendent realm of spirituality. While it is not necessary fir Catholics to practice contemplative prayer, the renewal of it coincided exactly with the Charismatic Renewal in the U.S., around 1967. At that time, young teenage or young adult Catholics were trying to learn about this. They were hungry for access to God. This was a direct move of the Holy Spirit.
Buddhist meditation Is not the same thing. Unfortunately, it was the "tares" growing up with the "wheat" that Jesus planted at the exact same time. Protestant colleges were actually teaching about "eastern pagan religions." Not Catholic colleges. So if you are Protestant, especially Baptist, you will never understand. It is not in your spiritual DNA. But any of the pseudo-Catholic faith practices, such as Lutheran or Anglican/Episcopalian will easily grasp this innately Catholic practice dating back to the earliest post-Resurrection appearances of Our Lord. Many Jewish youth were lured into and drawn toBuddhism. Because there is a meditation practice within Judaism. They later became Catholic. I learned from them directly the deep distinctions between true Christian or Catholic contemplation and pagan or nihilistic buddhism.
Thank you so much. This is the most genuine, heart-centered guided centering prayer I have come across. 🙏🏼✨
Thank you for this! Love centering prayer 🙌
why can't you just pray the lords prayer? this junk it worthless.
Thanks for a beautiful video offering the experience of Centering Prayer. I have been practicing for some years and just recently shared CP with the seminarians at the local seminary here in Havana. God bless you and your ministry of service! By the way, my mother's maiden name is Pringle (from Mississippi, but with roots in S. Carolina).
Thanks a lot for this centering prayer.
This was a fantastic introduction. Thank you so much 🙏🏽❤️.
Thank you so much
Thank you 🙏
Thank you!
Excellent video. So helpful. Thank you!
The empowerment of grace. Love it
Thank you. This is meditation. Pray is said to be talking to God. Meditation is Listening to God. Sitting in the stillness , breathing, and listening (not to the mind, to the feeling of being in "Awe" of God. ❤💖
Sooo happy to find you on TH-cam
Thank you for sharing this practice! ❤️
Thanks
Wonderful - except for the ad in the middle of the session!
Awesome
I thought that Prayer was talking to God
It it reminds me of many years ago when I was on to yoga and meditation part of the occult. I don't mean to be rude but appears to be weird to me. Where is this kind of practice in the Bible.?
As crestons wife I pray according to God's word the way Jesus taught me to pray father in Jesus name. We are to die to self die to our old life. The Bible says don't go beyond what is written. Before we had the Bible we didn't. After we have the bible the Bible shows us how to pray as christians.
Ps we are not to learn the ways of the heathen or heathen nations
Too bad that he doesn’t mention God. It’s not about getting to know the deeper self. It’s not all about is ego.
Centering prayer is DANGEROUS!
Close mindedness is dangerous
Dangerous is your judgement.
How is it dangerous?
@@missygrrl This is Buddhist teaching! Has no part in Christianity! Do some research! The bell gives it away!
"You, LORD, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs." Isaiah 2:6
Zack As an ex-new ager who practiced meditation for twenty years this is meditation.
The spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola that include contemplative prayer are programs with occult methodologies and techniques that are being introduced and practiced in churches, seminaries and youth rallies around the world. These exercises are taken from the old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions and are the antithesis of the meditation presented in God’s Word. Other examples of these practices are the Walk to Emmaus, Cursillo, Centering Prayer, Ignatian Awareness, Examen, chanting, biblical imagination, prayers of discernment, and the Jesus Prayer.
Disguised Practice?
Most evangelicals would immediately reject divination practices like the Ouija board, for example, and see it as a device for contacting evil spirit entities, which the Bible condemns and calls an abomination (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). But the Catholic Spiritual Exercises, such as contemplative prayer, appear to the uneducated in God’s Word less threatening as it is disguised under church related activities.
The term “contemplative” means to think about something intently. So by the name, one would assume contemplative prayer to be earnest communication with God. However practitioners of these contemplative methods don’t do that. The goal of these practices is to get people beyond thinking and into the realm of “experiencing” God. A tutorial of this movement is The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola which introduces occult visualization. Sadly, these visualized apparitions are demons that take actual forms and usher the practitioner into the world of the occult and away from God.
Not Biblical
Contemplative prayer is not Biblical prayer because mystical “spirituality” downplays the role of faith in the Scriptures. It exalts “transcendental” experiences that raises the person from the earthly experiences into a supposedly higher “spiritual” stand. It is based on “experiences” rather than Bible based doctrine. God has given His Word and His Holy Spirit to help His children know what is of Him and what is not. The scriptures clearly teach that we should “give attendance… to doctrine” (1 Timothy 4:13).
Faith that is based on mysticism is subjective and does not rely upon the absolute truths of God. The Word of God has been given to us as a light the leads us to the path of righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Trusting in feelings and experiences is not Biblical, we must “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). And “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
We do not see any of the apostles, prophets or disciples ever using contemplative prayer to connect with God. On the contrary all sorcery and divination were fully condemned (1 Samuel 15:10) and for practicing these evils, the Jews were led into captivity and destroyed (2 Kings 17:17; Jeremiah 14:14; Malachi 3:5). And the apostle Paul lists sorcery as one of many sinful practices that rob people from having eternal life: “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife . . . and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21).
Sounds like you’re identifying yourself with God and that God is everything. That’s called pantheism. It’s not Christian.
If God is infinite and all-encompassing, then God is everything, and you're also him. If God is not everything, then he is limited, which by definition is not God.
This isn't Christianity! It's Buddhism!!
Or new age meditation
Please explain?
@@christinamorales6887 Please explain?
@@cop67 It will kill you spiritually! And you're totally free to do whatever you wish...as I am to have an opinion.
I agree this is Buddhism
A deeper sense of self? soul? Please watch : Centering Prayer is not Christian Prayer.wmv
Why so self righteous?
Spare me your judgement
What is Christian prayer? Enlighten me.
Yes, soul and Self. Go to the desert fathers or eastern orthodox teachings if you need know more.
Self-inflicted mindset believe emotional drug ...open to what? thinking that to God? or all kind of spirits as in the Eastern religions even to eval ones or own mind Idol thinking not thinking God? But Jesus was active in prayer or Our Father prayer is active or Rosary or even Peter was active by decision were I would go even with the doubts but active to whom he believes and why not only out of mind and Gospel or good news and life situations is active, not passive to work and reflect in us and from us and only stay in feeling with thinking that everything is God, of course, Eucharist is God presence because we know as Jesus said and left to us and different from everything and we have to have knowledge about it and think or stay in that knowledge but see the difference from the rest or our thoughts and feelings...look what says about it ex Buddhist now Christian Paul Williams on EWTN Journey Home with Marcus Grodi....remember you are not God and not equal to God and you have to have humility before God in Christianity
Read desert fathers and orthodox teachings.
Hi
I’m just beginning to learn about centring prayer, can I access sessionn1,2 and 3?
Thank you
I can't do it without crying. What is wrong with me?
Thank you! This was very helpful :)
Thank you so much for this.
Ok now he mentioned God.
This is very good!