NEWS
Marquette Contemplative Community
Welcome to the Web home of the Marquette Contemplative Community. We are here to support the contemplative interests of the university community.
There is growing interest in contemplative practice and study at Marquette, and the Milwaukee Contemplative Community has organized to make opportunities more available to faculty, students, administrators and staff.
The MCC was awarded the 2011–12 Edward D. Simmons Religious Committment Grant to further these interests. With this support, we are initiating weekly contemplative sessions for the Marquette community and are planning a speaker series to support the practice.
Mission Statement
The Marquette Contemplative Community [MCC] was established to support interest in contemplative practices at Marquette University. The mission of the Marquette Contemplative Community is to offer educational programming and contemplative practice as a community of people who value the possibilities contemplation holds for meaningful life and service, both at Marquette and in our wider society. Our vision is nonsectarian, and has emphasis on mindfulness meditation, lovingkindness and compassion meditation, and Christian contemplative prayer.
CONTEMPLATIVE EVENTS
Every Wednesday: Weekly Open Meditation Hour (Joan of Arc Chapel, 4:30 - 5:30 pm) Open to the entire Marquette community, including students, faculty and staff. All are welcome and invited to drop in or stay for the hour. (Meditation instruction available. If interested please contact us or arrive at the beginning of the hour.)
12/3: Centering Prayer, by Barbara Prendergast (Raynor Memorial Libraries, Beaumier A, 4- 5 pm).
Centering Prayer is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being - to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond thoughts, words, and emotions. Father Thomas Keating, founder of Contemplative Outreach, adapted the prayer methods of earlier times to give us Centering Prayer, a method of prayer that is not meant to replace other kinds of prayer but to add depth of meaning to all prayer, facilitating a movement into a receptive prayer of resting in God. In this talk, Barbara will introduce us to Centering Prayer and its technique.
See link for more details.
12/6: Miksang Contemplative Photography Show (Honors Program, Coughlin Hall – Lower Level, 001, 4 - 5:30 pm). View the wonderful and miraculous perceptions of a semester-long exploration of Mindfulness in Photography.
Light Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact instructor Miriam.hall@mu.edu; for more information about Miksang: www.miksang.org
Photography provided by Miriam Hall at herspiral.com
