Day of Praying, Listening and Eating Saturday, October 5, 2024   9:00am-3:30pm St. Barnabas Church,319 W. Wisconsin Ave.Deland, FL   The format for our Chapter Planning and Prayerful Discernment day has changed. We will not have the “Visioning Day” but will have a much needed Day of Prayer for all our chapter...

Pray with Us Each First Monday of the Month, 7:00 a.m. Join us at 7:00 a.m. the first Mondays of each month for a 20-minute Centering Prayer sit with our friends and neighbors in the Central Florida chapter of Contemplative Outreach. As we continue to move forward out of the...

The popular Living Flame Program last held more than a decade ago in the Daytona Beach area will be available again via Zoom to folks in Central and East Florida.  Living Flame is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023 and in those years it has morphed into an international resource...

Reported by Dan Wagner I attended the yearly Global conversation of Centering Prayer practitioners Friday Jan 27th with the CO Ltd Chapter Support team: Marie Howard, Carol Quest, and Jean Benfer. The goal was to see how the Holy Spirit was moving and working in the local prayer groups. It...

Deadline Extended, Space Available COCFL One Day Fall Retreat   Key Contemplative Women Ancestors        Reclaiming our Christian Mystical Roots Saturday October 29, 2022 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Canterbury Retreat Center 1601 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo, FL 32765 Join us in person at Canterbury’s beautiful settings: $50 (includes lunch)  or attend remotely...

The burial service for Nestor de Armas was Friday, January 21, 2022 11:00 a.m., at All Saints Episcopal Church, 338 Lyman Ave., Winter Park FL. The service was streamed live.  A replay is available with the YouTube link below. Our contemplative community is devastated by the loss of Nestor. He...

It is with sadness that we report the death of Nestor de Armas on Monday, January 3, 2022.  Nestor was a vital part of the Contemplative Outreach of Central Florida community even before becoming chapter coordinator in 2014.  Nestor’s passing was reported by Stetson Today, the news site of Stetson...

In 2018, Fr. Thomas asked the Centering Prayer community to return to his basic teaching on the Christian Spiritual Journey. One new way to do that is to explore “The Spiritual Journey: Formation in the Christian Contemplative Life” which is now free and online on the Contemplative Outreach website at https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/spiritual-journey-program/ . The...

Dr. Gray Matthews presented a day-long workshop commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton. Mattews wrote that, as a spiritual guide, Merton offers invaluable counsel regarding the significance of contemplative prayer, not just to quell our anxious souls but to invigorate them. The thrust of the day-long...

(Reprinted from Contemplative Outreach)   Ilse Reissner 1929 – 2021     HER HISTORY IN EXTENSION CONTEMPLATIVA INTERNACIONAL The history of the Spanish Centering Prayer Groups in Central Florida starts in 1991, when Ilse Reissner moved to Altamonte Springs from Miami. She had learned and practiced Centering Prayer for a few years...