Centering Prayer Group Schedule and Readings
at Grace Church, Brooklyn 2010-2011
Archive of centering prayer readings 2008-2009
Archive of centering prayer readings 2009-2010
Archive of centering prayer readings 2011-2012
Date |
Facilitator |
Psalm |
Passage |
September 14 |
Lindsay | Psalm 1 (The psalm readings this year are from Stephen Mitchell, A Book of Psalms) | Hafiz, Tired of Speaking Sweetly |
September 21 |
Lindsay & Connie | Psalm 4 | from Sacred Reading, by Michael Casey |
September 28 |
Lindsay | Psalm 8 | Mary Oliver, The Kookaburras |
October 5 |
Lindsay | Psalm 13 | from Invitation to Love, by Thomas Keating |
October 12 |
Lindsay | Psalm 27 | Chogyam Trungpa, An Open Wound |
October 19 |
Lindsay | Psalm 16 | Rainer Maria Rilke, Sometimes a Man . . . |
October 26 |
Lindsay | Psalm 17 | Luke 10:38-42 Mary & Martha |
November 2 |
Lindsay | Psalm 19 | Frank Ostaseski, The First Precept |
November 9 |
Lindsay | Psalm 19 | Frank Ostaseski, The Third Precept |
November 16 |
Lindsay | Psalm 23 | Frank Ostaseski, The Second Precept |
November 23 |
Lindsay | Psalm 24 | Frank Ostaseski, The Fourth Precept |
November 30 |
Lindsay | Psalm 30 | Frank Ostaseski, The Fifth Precept |
December 7 |
Lindsay | Psalm 34 | Thich Nhat Hanh, Our true home |
December 14 |
Lindsay | Isaiah 11:1-10 | Luke 2:8-14, Tidings of great joy |
December 21 |
No meeting | ||
December 28 |
No meeting | ||
January 4 |
Lindsay | Psalm 36 | Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic |
January 11 | Francesca | Psalm 25 | Romans 8:26-28, Sighs too deep for words |
January 18 | Lindsay | Psalm 39 | from Your Word Is Fire, by Arthur Green |
January 25 | Lindsay | Psalm 40 | From President Obama's Tucson Memorial Speech |
February 1 | Lindsay | Psalm 42 | From Philip Novak, Developing Your Awareness |
February 8 | Lindsay | Psalm 46 | Philippians 2:12-3 Your own salvation |
February 15 | Lindsay | Psalm 51 | Ann Ulanov, The psyche wants to be whole . . . |
February 22 | Lindsay | Psalm 53 | Eckhart Tolle, Listen with your whole body . . . |
March 1 | Lindsay | Psalm 57 | Parker Palmer, The yes of our lives . . . |
March 8 | Lindsay | Psalm 65 | Luke 9:1-6 |
March15 | Lindsay | Psalm 67 | Matthew 4:1-11 |
March 22 | No meeting | ||
March 29 | Lindsay | Psalm 84 | Matthew 16:24-26 |
April 5 | Lindsay | Psalm 90 | Ephesians 5:8-14 Children of light |
April 12 | Lindsay | Psalm 130 | Ezekiel 37:1-14 The valley of bones |
April 19 | Lindsay | Psalm 92 | Philippians 2:5-11 |
April 26 | Lindsay | Psalm 93 | Matthew 28:1-10 |
May 3 | Lindsay | Psalm 98 | John 20:19:29 |
May 10 | Lindsay | Psalm 100 | Wendell Berry, from Sabbaths 2001 |
May 17 | Lindsay | Psalm 102 | Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet |
May 24 | Lindsay | Psalm 103 | 1 Peter 2:2-5 Taste that the Lord is good |
May 31 | Lindsay | Psalm 103 | Exodus 3:11-14 I AM WHO I AM |
June 7 | Lindsay | Psalm 104 | Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert |
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