TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keating,Thomas
TI  - Invitation to love: the way of Christian contemplation 
SN  - 185230295X 
AV  - BV 5091.C7 K4187 1992
U1  - 248.3/4 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Rockport, Mass.
PB  - Element
KW  - Contemplation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-151); The Emotional Programs for Happiness -- The False Self in Action -- The Afflictive Emotions -- The Human Condition -- Mythic Membership Consciousness -- MEntal Egoic Consciousness -- The Four Consents -- Bernie -- Anthony as a Paradigm os the Spiritual Journey --The Night of Sense: Freedom from the False Self -- Special Trials in the Night of Sense --Anthony in the Tombs: Freedom from Cultural Conditioning -- The Fruits of the Night of Sense -- The Stages of Contemplative Prayer --The Night of Spirit -- The Transforming Union -- The First Four Beatitudes -- The Essence of Contemplative Prayer -- From Contemplation to Action -- Contemplation in Action -- Spiritual in Everyday Life --
N2  - The practice of Centering Prayer, which Father Keating presented in his bestselling Open Mind, Open Heart, is the beginning of a process of spiritual growth.  In this present work he outlines and explains the actual stages of his process.  In the course of numerous workshops and retreats Father Keating is asked many questions regarding contemplative practice.  How will it affect my life? Where does it lead us spiritually? What obstacles will encounter along the way? Why is it necessary? How does it work? The author says in his introduction  This is an attempt to provide a road map, as it were, for the journey that begins when Centering Prayer is seriously undertaken, and to point to some of the recognizable landmarks on the journey as well as its ultimate destination... The regular practice of contemplative prayer initiates a healing process that might be called "the divine therapy"... The gift of contemplative prayer is a practical and essential tool for confronting the heart of Christian discipline... while at the same time establishing the climate and necessary dispositions for a deepening relationship to God and leading, if we persevere, to divine union
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