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 Martha Campbell
10/8 to 10/10/2010
When Life Becomes Prayer: A Contemplative Retreat for Engaged Activists
Fri 6:30 Dinner thru Sun Lunch
$335
All Christian life is meant to be at the same timeprofoundly contemplative and rich in active work.
– Thomas Merton
We live in a fast-paced culture that invites multi-tasking, efficiency and relevance. And yet, the Christian call (and that of many other religious traditions) is to bear fruit from a different place. When our thoughts and actions originate from a deep center of receptivity, our activism is blessed with Presence and we become blessing and renewal for humanity and for the earth. How can we live more deeply into the calling to be a counter-cultural presence in the world? How can we live more intentionally from this deep center?
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All Christian life is meant to be at the same timeprofoundly contemplative and rich in active work. – Thomas Merton We live in a fast-paced culture that invites multi-tasking, efficiency and relevance. And yet, the Christian call (and that of many other religious traditions) is to bear fruit from a different place. When our thoughts and actions originate from a deep center of receptivity, our activism is blessed with Presence and we become blessing and renewal for humanity and for the earth. How can we live more deeply into the calling to be a counter-cultural presence in the world? How can we live more intentionally from this deep center?
During this weekend retreat we will form a community of deep listening, praying for a greater willingness to live from our deep center in the Holy One. The retreat will take place in communal silence and prayerful listening where we will more deeply claim our identity as engaged activists, profoundly contemplative while rich in active work. The weekend will weave together experiences of plenary input, time for quiet and guided reflection, periods of silent communal meditation, and group sharing. While this offering is rooted in the Christian tradition, our gathering is inclusive of the rich gifts of other traditions and perspectives.
Martha Campbell is a lay contemplative living in western Massachusetts. For the past 15 years, she has been engaged in full-time spiritual ministry and has had experience as a retreat team member at the Bon Secours Spiritual Center in Marriottsville, MD and most recently as the Director of the Spiritual Guidance Program at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, Bethesda, MD. In addition to ministry as a spiritual director, educator and retreat leader, Martha is a licensed psychologist. She holds graduate degrees in religious studies (MA)
and psychology (Psy.D.). In addition, Martha comes with lived experience of the Carmelite contemplative tradition. Her own spiritual journey is richly grounded in the practices of Anusara
Yoga and Christian Zen.
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Recommended Readings for this Retreat:
A prayerful reading of any one of the following books will serve as preparation for the retreat:
LeClaire, Anne D. Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009.
May, Gerald G., M.D. Living in Love: Articles from Shalem News 1978-2005. Bethesda, MD: Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, Inc., 2008.
Palmer, Parker J. The Active Life: Wisdom for Work, Creativity, and Caring. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Rohr, Richard. The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 2009.
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