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Virtual Sit Meditations for Lent Beginning February 24, 2023  

Are you looking for a centering practice during Lent? Join the CAC online contemplative community for a free series of Virtual Sit Meditations to cultivate greater awareness during this Lenten season. Live streamed on YouTube, these virtual meditations will take place each Friday at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET; 6 p.m. GMT), from February 24 until April 7.

You are receiving this newsletter again because we originally sent out an incorrect time! We apologize for causing any confusion. Please note all Virtual Sit Meditations begin at 10 a.m. PT.

Virtual Sit Meditations for Lent
Every Friday from February 24 – April 7, 2023 
Featuring CAC Faculty and Staff
Presented by the Center for Action and Contemplation 

Register Now for Mary Magdalene: Apostle for Our Own Times with Cynthia Bourgeault  

Cynthia Bourgeault’s wisdom continues to grow deeper roots in my being, which brings my heart great peace and joy. —Ann Marie K., CAC Community Member 

What do you know about Mary Magdalene’s life and wisdom? Mary Magdalene: Apostle to Our Own Times explores one of Christianity’s most courageous women and an important disciple of Jesus who truly embodied his non-dualistic approach and deep understanding of the Divine feminine. Learn what made Mary one of Jesus’ most important and beloved disciples and discover her legacy as an apostle to our times—revealing a path of conscious love that we too are invited to walk.

Learning Objectives: 

• Cultivate a depth of love in your daily life through reflection and engagement with contemplative teachings and practices.
• Expand your awareness of Mary Magdalene and what she reveals about the nature of conscious love. 
• Develop your contemplative practice to engage and embody these teachings. 
• Connect and learn with other spiritual seekers 

Register Today for Mary Magdalene: Apostle to Our Own Times!
Time Commitment: 2–4 hours a week
Registration Ends: March 21, 2023
Apply for Financial Assistance by March 14, 2023
Course Begins: March 29, 2023 

Experience Revelatory Stillness with Wondrous Encounters: Scriptures for Lent by Richard Rohr

Jesus gathers and heals because he is one with himself, one with God, and even one with the pain of the [person] who cannot speak. —Richard Rohr, Wondrous Encounters: Scriptures for Lent 

What does the stillness of Lent reveal? Deepen your experience of the season with Wondrous Encounters, Richard Rohr's collection of meditations for Lent. An invitation for transformation into our original "image and likeness," Fr. Richard begins each entry with a single title or phrase, then offers a meditation, followed by key passages from the readings. He ends each meditation with a starter prayer that invites you to enter divine dialogue with clarity, insight, and holy desire!

Order Wondrous Encounters: Scriptures for Lent today at the CAC Online Bookstore!

Now Streaming! Join us for Learning How to See Season 4

Whether you stay Christian or not, you have to wake up the next morning and decide what kind of human to be. —Brian McLaren

In the new season of Learning How to See, host Brian McLaren invites listeners to dive deep into “how” we stay Christian after going through a period of introspection and doubt. Joined this season by CAC friends Barbara Brown Taylor and Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Brian invites listeners to explore the guideposts on our faith journey that keep us honest, open, and more fully human during troubled times.   

How do we transform and transcend our biases? From unconscious judgments to complacency in systemic evil, we must learn how to see if we are to learn how to transform. In the podcast Learning How to See, author, public theologian, and former evangelical pastor Brian McLaren helps listeners discover how seeing is social, political, and contemplative.

Subscribe to Learning How to See on your favorite podcast player or listen online!

Registration Closes Soon! Enroll in Immortal Diamond with Richard Rohr by Feb. 28   

Your True Self is life, being, and love. Love is what you were made for, and love is who you are. —Richard Rohr 

How do you invite God's Love to flow through you and into the world? Immortal Diamond is an opportunity to mine for the real you that has been there all along, hidden under the trappings of ego and False Self. Over the course of 10-weeks, you will embark on a spiritual exploration of the True Self based on Richard Rohr’s book of the same name, rediscovering your forgotten Self that can never be destroyed—only transformed to live in eternal Love.

Learning Objectives: 

• Discover a vision of your True Self through reading, reflection and engagement with Fr. Richard's book, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self 
• Deepen your enjoyment of divine friendship by opening spaces for God's love and life to flow through you 
• Develop contemplative practice(s) to form the alternative consciousness on the path toward spiritual maturity 
• Connect and learn with other spiritual seekers 

Register Today for Immortal Diamond!
Time Commitment: 2–4 hours a week
Registration Ends: February 28, 2023
Apply for Financial Assistance by February 21, 2023
Course Begins: March 8, 2023