Newsletter

Hello Contemplative friends in the Greater Victoria Region, We can meet again in person! We can ditch the Zoom separation and gather again as living, breathing, contemplatives. Not on a 2-dimensional screen, but in multi-dimensional embodiment of community – to sit, walk, celebrate, and enjoy our living presence to each other and the Divine Presence in all Creation. Join us for a Spring Celebration with a gentle morning of Contemplative Silence.We’ll Celebrate with chant in the Style of...

Jesus replied, “Now the hour has come for the Chosen One to be glorified. The truth of the matter is, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.” John 12:24 IB It is the start of Holy Week, and everywhere on these traditional terirtories of the Lek’wungen speaking peoples the earth is waking from it’s long cold, wet and windy winter. The yellow daffodils and blue camas have broken through the frigid ground...

Hello Contemplatives! We’re very excited to announce the publication of our latest recording: Practicing the Living Presence: Discovering the Mind of Christ Within (Part One), by Cynthia Bourgeault In this teaching, Cynthia is accompanied by a group Christian contemplatives in Victoria BC over a 4 year period from 1999 – 2003 and 30 sessions, as they worked their way through Kabir Helminski’s practical, ground-truthed Sufi text “Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential...

Hello contemplative friends! In our part of the world, we’ve bid farewell to summer heat, and now feel the cool of fall settling on the west coast. The familiar turning of the seasons again reminds us of the never-ending rhythms of Sacred Presence. With the turn comes the shift of creative energy that is so needed to plan and implement the pieces that will see us through the winter months. Now is a good time to update you on the new movements here at The Contemplative Society, and how these...