Contemplative Network

06/26/2023

We'd like to welcome our newest board member, William Gorsky.

Bill Gorsky is a Mining Geologist. For twenty years, he worked in mining and exploration honing his engineering and scientific knowledge in the natural environment. After leaving the mining profession, Bill traveled

06/01/2023

This week The Scientific & Medical Network is releasing a few short clips from Chairman Bob Hesse's excellent webinar. We invite you to watch the full-length recording being broadcast as a "live" video premiere on Saturday 3 June at 6:00pm (UK), on SMN's channel, https://www.youtube.com/. 

For more information on this fascinating topic, consult Dr. Hesse's recently published book, Faith and Science: A Journey into God's Mystical Love. It is receiving international attention and was recently presented to His Holiness, Pope Francis. The book is available on Amazon and Crossroad Publishing's web site.

05/30/2023

"Suffering is not a problem to be solved. It is a truth to be recognized."
Cuong Lu

05/23/2023

God, help me be a better person today than I was yesterday.

05/10/2023

God, help me bloom where I am planted and recognize what you want me to do in Your name today.

02/05/2023

Friends in the Houston area, we received information about a Lenten Retreat that we'd like to pass on.
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Dear friends of RUAH Spirituality Center,

We invite you to register for our 2023 Lenten Retreat. It is scheduled for February 23rd-26th, 2023. On Thursday, February 23rd we ask our guests to please arrive by 4:00 pm. You are welcome to arrive earlier in the day on the 23rd just let us know ahead of time. Also, the Retreat will end on Sunday, February 26th, guest check-out is at 10:30 am.

Meals will be provided during your retreat. Our limit is 30 individuals.

Once we have reached our limit of registrations, the form will be closed. However, you can still be added to our waitlist by simply letting me know. If you have registered and need to cancel, please be mindful of those who are on our waitlist and let me know as soon as possible.

Once you have registered on our google form, we will send you a confirmation email with more details about your stay. See the attached flyer and register below or on our website.

Register here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxC3sQaThY7u_dQV7M9SsaKmFL3Y9o_73tHwtFjJQTDbLcFQ/viewform.



Blessings,

Linda Malagon

Administrative Assistant, RUAH Spirituality Center

Phone: 713-928-6053, x1228

Email: [email protected]

6510 Lawndale, Houston, TX 77023

Web: www.ruahcenter.org

01/21/2023

Watch this great podcast from the University of St. Thomas and Bob Hesse.

University of St. Thomas (UST) Max Studios PodcastDr. Richard Ludwick President UST & Bob Hesse11 January 2023

01/20/2023

News Views- Our Contemplative Network newsletter- for Q1 2023 is now available!

Rosemarie Florence Freeney Harding was born in Chicago on July 24, 1930. She died at 73 from cardiac arrest caused by complications of adult-onset diabetes in Philadelphia on March 1, 2004. She was the youngest of nine children and the first in her family to graduate from college; she went on to ear...

01/20/2023

Indigenous practitioners say contemplative activities like yoga and meditation can be powerful tools for healing. Some are working to protect the wellness industry's use of smudging from cultural appropriation, while also respecting that the practice of meditation originated outside Turtle Island.

01/20/2023

Here's the last newsletter from 2022.

Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born August 15, 1917 in El Salvador. On March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence, he was assassinated during the consecration. He was 62. In 2010, it was discovered during a trial in the United States, Major Roberto D’Aubuis...

12/07/2022

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/12/07/robert-lauder-centering-prayer-grace-244014

Beautiful article showing how Centering Prayer is important now more than ever in this post-pandemic world.

Centering prayer helps me find those places in my heart where God's grace is playing.

12/06/2022

Friends of Contemplative,

We would like to invite you to join our Chairman, Bob Hesse, as he gives a presentation at the Aleneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum in Rome on his book, Faith and Science: A Journey into God's Mystical Love.

The presentation, via Zoom or U Tube, is scheduled for today, Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 10:00 am CST.

ZOOM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82843090244?pwd=MVBjYTFWU21zWDZWTExKSzBUalNSZz09



YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC38hqoIoNd0GcRf8eGlHlxg

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