The Heart of Matter
A Weekly Reflection from the Center for ChristogenesisA New Contemplative Email Series
Offered Weekly, Every Tuesday
Launching in January 2022
Introduction & Purpose
Designed to deepen both the reader’s understanding and their spiritual practice, each weekly email will focus on a passage of Ilia’s work that expands the Center’s vision, while providing practical instruction to move these insights from the head to the heart. Through sustained contemplation on the intellectual import and spiritual potency of these passages, your understanding and practice will expand.
Each weekly email will also be posted below in the Weekly Reflection sections, where you can browse back through previous reflections, as well as share comments and engage in discussion with the Center for Christogenesis community. We invite you to share your challenges, experiences, and breakthroughs with us and with each other. Only together will we transform our world and increase the love at the heart of the universe.
Learn more by clicking on the Deepening Your Understanding and Deepening Your Practice headers below, or sign up to receive the weekly series in your inbox.
Deepening Your Understanding
What is being revealed? What is being moved? What is being asked? This can be challenging because those quotes will be short and seemingly straightforward but staying with them longer will break them open to new growths. This will be an opportunity to meet something in the text that nourishes and challenges, something to wrestle with and grow into. Day after day let those words open your heart and guide you.
Deepening Your Practice
Knowledge without practice remains “heady” and far from becoming transformative.The practices introduced to read the text have one aim and that is to deepen the understanding of the text. Those practices can also be used to read Scriptures, poetry, even secular texts as a way to counterbalance our time’s propensity to read quickly and remain at the surface of things.
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Weekly Reflections
The Heart of Matter – Waking up
Tuesday, March 15th "This Lent we are called into a new consciousness of love. It is time to move beyond Plato’s...
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Tuesday, March 8th "Lent is a time for living on the edge, poised for the next moment of life. We are invited to...
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Tuesday, March 1st " Love always seeks the best for the beloved. Until we grow into this God, who is love, a...
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