In the Center: The Story of a Retreat

by Barbara Gardner and Barbara Rogers

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877932662
• ISBN13: 9780877932666
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Length: 157 Pages

Customer Reviews

How to Pray

In this artful narrative, author Barbara Rogers chronicles the backgrounds and experiences of nine strangers, who gather at a house of prayer on a farm in rural Quebec for a month of silent, prayerful retreat. As one of the nine, she creates a fascinating montage of the participants' stories as they seek a richer awareness of God through meditation, intense journal writing and self analysis. Each story illuminates one of the spiritual practices used at the retreat center. And collectively these personal stories convey just what an experience of prayer is, helping readers to identify their own religious experiences. Under the guidance of acknowledged spiritual directors, the participants In The Center pray, work and feel God's love. They come to a new level of insight into their own lives and to a deeper understanding of the words of Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you." -- for book's dustjacket