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“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.” “…Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be distressed; …Thou shalt not be overcome.” Julian of Norwich from Revelations of Divine Love. A May 2025 online retreat with Heather Ruce is offered by TCS in this newsletter. Silence, Presence, Creativity by Barbara Cecil I write to fellow travelers, who, like me, are wending their way into the living heart of silence…to...

Joyful blessings, fellow contemplatives. Offered in this newsletter: + A new reflection by Paula Pryce. + A TCS online retreat with Justin Coutts, held on February 22, 2025. + Links to access TCS’s newest video on: “Christian Contemplation”. + A ‘Quiet Day’, an in-person community retreat held on March 08, 2025. And more! Home by Another Way: Trusting the Dark Journey of the Non-Sensorial by Paula Pryce If you are searching,you must not stop until you find. When you find,...

New Year 2025 blessings, contemplative companions. A February 2025 online retreat with Justin Coutts is offered by TCS in this newsletter. “The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere” ~ Thomas Merton by Barbara Cecil (Dedicated to the young people who are inheriting the world we have created.) I was touched by how Heather Ruce opened the daily Pause of meditation and Centering Prayer earlier this month. She spoke of a great wave surrounding us, permeating us, which is itself the flow of God. The name...

Advent, with dragons by Paula Pryce "A most cruel and horrible dragon issued forth . . . of various colours, with a beard and hair that seemed of gold, and teeth that seemed of iron, eyes sharp and brilliant as kindled flame." – The Legend of St. Margaret of Antioch Dragons curling, twisting, encroaching. Many have said that this Advent feels different. The soft hopefulness diminished, the growing light muted. Instead a cavern of tangled serpents seems to be at our feet. A roiling world...