Meditative Services
There are many ways to connect with God in worship. At St. John's, we offer many opportunities for meditative prayer and reflection.
Taizé Worship
Mondays, 5:30 p.m. (First Monday of each month)
If prayer is a significant practice in your life, yet it sometimes gets crowded out very easily, you might enjoy the style of worship created by the community of Taizé in France. Taizé worship is based around structured rhythms of contemplation and silence that provide a way to “turn off the buzz” of our daily lives and experie…
Read More »Thich Nhat Han Meditation
Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m., St. Joseph's Chapel (in St. John's Church)
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. His key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment—the only way to truly develo…
Read More »Labyrinth
When it's not covered in snow, you can enjoy the meditative walk of our labyrinth!
The labyrinth goes back 5,000 years or more. There are many indirect references to it as a spiritual tool. Abbess Hildegard of Bingen defined divinity as “a circle, a wheel, a whole.” In the Divine Comedy, Dante uses both the metaphor and the image of the labyrinth. It is from the tradition of …
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