On Retreat with Fr. William Meninger, O.C.S.O "The Process of Forgiveness"
February 28th 4pm(arrival)-March 2nd 2pm(departure)
Cerveny Episcopal Conference Center at Camp Weed
Live Oak, FL
Cerveny Episcopal Conference Center at Camp Weed
Live Oak, FL
Fr. William Meninger returns to the Tallahassee area February 28th-March 2nd, 2014 to present a weekend retreat in the quiet peaceful setting of Camp Weed. Fr. William Meninger is a Trappist monk, author and internationally-known teacher of contemplative prayer and spiritual formation. He is the author of The Process of Forgiveness, The Loving Search for God, and Julian of Norwich: A Mystic for Today. He has been studying, practicing and teaching forms of contemplative prayer and spiritual disciplines for over 40 years. He lives most of his year at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass CO, leaving only a few times a year for special teaching engagements.
Join him in this special retreat weekend where he explores this most complex but necessary facet of spiritual life: forgiveness. Fr. Meninger teaches how we can learn to make this most difficult act part of our spiritual practice -- and recommends prayer to help experience it. The retreat is based on his book of the same name; the book will be for sale at the workshop and Fr. Meninger is willing to sign books. There will also be a period for asking questions.
Join him in this special retreat weekend where he explores this most complex but necessary facet of spiritual life: forgiveness. Fr. Meninger teaches how we can learn to make this most difficult act part of our spiritual practice -- and recommends prayer to help experience it. The retreat is based on his book of the same name; the book will be for sale at the workshop and Fr. Meninger is willing to sign books. There will also be a period for asking questions.
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Registration is required.
email: [email protected]
Call Jeri Winkleblack at 562-3267
Please register as early as possible to ensure your spot in listening to this extraordinary spiritual guide.
Registration is required.
email: [email protected]
Call Jeri Winkleblack at 562-3267
Please register as early as possible to ensure your spot in listening to this extraordinary spiritual guide.
Special Thank you to the sponsors of this special event:
Contemplative Outreach of NW Florida
Faith Presbyterian Church
Good Samaritan United Methodist Church
Killearn United Methodist Church
Trinity United Methodist Church
Contemplative Outreach of NW Florida
Faith Presbyterian Church
Good Samaritan United Methodist Church
Killearn United Methodist Church
Trinity United Methodist Church
More about Father Meninger
Father William was born, raised and educated in the Boston area in Massachusetts. His mother was born and raised in County
Kerry and his father was a Quaker from Pennsylvania. Ordained in 1958, after 8 years in St. John's Seminary, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Yakima, Washington. where he worked on an Indian Reservation and with Mexican traveling workers for 6 years. In 1963 he entered the Trappists at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he served in the guest house for 15 years, taught
Scripture, liturgy and patristics; served as subprior, prior and dean of the junior professed monks.
In 1979 he was transferred to a daughter house, St. Benedicts Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, where he served as Prior, vocation director, novice master, and teacher of theology and scripture. He spent 3 years in Israel where he studied scripture and taught at the Center for
Biblical Studies in Jerusalem and at the Trappist Monastery of Latroun.
He also did graduate studies at Seattle University, Harvard Divinity School, and Boston University. In 1974 he originated the workshop on Contemplative Meditation (later known as Centering Prayer) which he now teaches worldwide along with workshops on Forgiveness, the
Enneagram, Sacred Scriptures, and Prayer. He leaves the monastery only 4 times each year to do this lest he lose his own monastic orientation while sharing it with others.
Kerry and his father was a Quaker from Pennsylvania. Ordained in 1958, after 8 years in St. John's Seminary, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Yakima, Washington. where he worked on an Indian Reservation and with Mexican traveling workers for 6 years. In 1963 he entered the Trappists at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he served in the guest house for 15 years, taught
Scripture, liturgy and patristics; served as subprior, prior and dean of the junior professed monks.
In 1979 he was transferred to a daughter house, St. Benedicts Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, where he served as Prior, vocation director, novice master, and teacher of theology and scripture. He spent 3 years in Israel where he studied scripture and taught at the Center for
Biblical Studies in Jerusalem and at the Trappist Monastery of Latroun.
He also did graduate studies at Seattle University, Harvard Divinity School, and Boston University. In 1974 he originated the workshop on Contemplative Meditation (later known as Centering Prayer) which he now teaches worldwide along with workshops on Forgiveness, the
Enneagram, Sacred Scriptures, and Prayer. He leaves the monastery only 4 times each year to do this lest he lose his own monastic orientation while sharing it with others.