Fr. Thomas Keating discusses how contemplative prayer draws us into a participation in the life of Christ:
If our contemplative practice, or Centering Prayer as our way into [contemplation] is really genuine, or you understand it correctly, it follows the mysteries of Christ very closely by experience… It’s important to remember that Christ is, for a Christian, not just a human person. It’s a divine human person, or the incarnation of the Word of God… by becoming acquainted with his teaching and interiorizing it – and his teaching, of course, includes his example – one begins to awaken the “third eye,” which reads scripture and sees the events in Christ’s life as expressing aspects of the divine nature that are available and being communicated to us if we take the time to cultivate them… Jesus, by being baptized, identified himself with his mission in a particular, complete way... What Jesus is doing in the Baptism in the Jordan is identifying with the human condition just as it is, which is weak, undeveloped, unevolved, to regress…   It’s this poignancy of the human condition that awakened God’s infinite mercy to respond to the desperate need of humans created for infinite happiness, bur having either lost it or never having evolved into it.
Contact us at 314-578-0062 or [email protected]!