United Church of Strafford, Vermont
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Category: Contemplative Training
Sermon from November 22, 2020
I Will Save My Flock: They Shall No Longer Be RavagedRev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, VermontNovember 22 2020 Twenty-fifth and Last Sunday after Pentecost,Reign of Christ SundayPsalm 95:1-7a; Ezekiel 34:11-12, 14-16, 20-22; Matthew 25:31-46 [You can watch…
Read MoreTools for Calm and Wisdom: Welcoming and Centering Prayer Practices
Which would feel better to you: to be anxious, tense, fretting, enslaved to obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior, despairing…or as calm as you can be under the circumstances, resting in quiet trust, finding a place of inner peace even in…
Read MoreMark Kutolowski Teaching on Welcoming Practice
Mark and Lisa Kutolowski and Metanoia of Vermont hosted a webinar on the Welcoming Prayer practice on March 27, 2020. The description of it is below. At the start of the session Mark gave a twelve minute introduction that briefly…
Read MoreMessage from Mark Kutolowski: Spiritual Opportunities of the Pandemic
The spiritual opportunities of the COVID-19 Coronoavirus pandemic By Mark Kutolowski I write two days after the World Health Organization has declared the worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus a global pandemic. News about this virus is dominating national and…
Read MoreAsh Wednesday Silent Drop-in Service 2020
Lent began in the early church as a forty-day fast, inspired by Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness. It is a time for self-emptying to let the Spirit have room to transform our heart. Lent is not about punishing our…
Read MoreSunday, April 28th: George Kinder in Worship and Conversation
Tom’s brother George will be with us in worship and afterward for a structured circle conversation on Sunday, April 28, 2019. George has been teaching meditation and mindfulness from a Buddhist perspective for over thirty years, although he began his…
Read MoreCentering Prayer Workshops, April 6, 2019
The Heartfulness Contemplative Training Circle will be sponsoring two workshops led by Mark Kutolowski on Saturday, April 6, 2019, with a potluck lunch in between. They will be held in the Parish Hall of the United Church of Straffod, Vermont. …
Read MoreHeartfulness Contemplative Training Circle Gatherings
Daily Heartfulness Circle by Zoom: We offer an informal meditation and conversation time every evening except Thursdays (see below) from 7:30 to 8:10 PM by Zoom only. We begin with silence until 7:55 and then those who wish may remain…
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