What is meditation, and how do you begin to do it? St. Francis de Sales wrote a wonderful little book called Introduction to ...

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4. The Church hasn’t condemned centering prayer. In 1989, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued “Letter to the Catholic Bishops on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation.” ...

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The second way of prayer is meditation. Meditation is the natural parallel to vocal prayer since it puts our heart behind our words. We have to learn to sit quietly with God and rest in him.

The Christian contemplative tradition, largely dormant for the last few centuries, has been reclaimed over the last 40 years or so and is primarily embodied in the practice of centering prayer.

But everyone, the religious enthusiast may ask with rhetorical flourish, should be a Christian, don’t you agree? It depends, comes the answer. It depends on what you mean by it.