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This is a special discounted price for a bundle of these two programs by Kathryn J. Hermes, F.S.P., M.T.S. and Fr. Donald Goergen, O.P., Ph.D.:

Contemplative Prayer

and

The Christian Contemplative Tradition

With this order you will receive, free of charge, a detailed Electronic Study Guide for each program. With your confirmation email, you will receive a link that will take you to these Electronic Study Guides, which include outlines for each lecture, review questions and suggested readings for further study. The link to access these Electronic Study Guides will also be included on the case of your CDs or DVDs. You are allowed to print up to 7 copies of each guide. Simply click on the link, or type it into your browser, to access the file.

About Your Presenter

Donald Goergen, O.P., Ph.D., is a Dominican priest, teacher, lecturer, and author. He has published many articles and ten books in the areas of Christology and Christian Spirituality. His most recent book was Fire of Love, Encountering the Holy Spirit. He has taught, lectured and given retreats in Asia, Africa, and throughout North America. He was previously Provincial for the Dominican Friars of the Central Province as well as President of the Dominican Leadership Conference. He co-founded the Dominican Ashram, a contemplative Dominican community and ministry of prayer, in which he lived for nine years. He previously taught and currently teaches at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO, where he is also prior of the formation community. His doctorate is in systematic theology, his dissertation on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and his current interests include contemplative traditions, East and West, the evolution of consciousness, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas as a spiritual master. Among other honors awarded him, he is the recipient of the 2010 Yves Congar Award from Barry University in Miami.

About Your Presenter

The study of spirituality has been a life-long pursuit of Kathryn J. Hermes, F.S.P. She has an M.T.S. from Weston Jesuit Center for Theological Studies and an advanced certificate in Scripture. She is the author of Surviving Depression—A Catholic Approach (now in ten languages), Making Peace with Yourself—15 Steps for Spiritual Healing, Beginning Contemplative Prayer, St. Joseph—Help for Life's Emergencies, Holding on to Hope (Fall 2010 release), among others. Hermes is a Daughter of St. Paul. She currently directs the Acquisitions Office for Pauline Book and Media Centers and Digital Publishing for the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul. She is a spiritual director, offers presentations on spirituality and depression, and leads retreats.

Topic Titles

• What God Is Doing
• Cultivate Stillness and Silence
• Invite to Come Near
• Introduction to Contemplation; Remain in God’s Presence: Lessons from Brother Lawrence
• Let the Spirit Direct Your: Lessons from St. Ignatius of Loyola
• Experiencing the Longing to Touch God: Lessons from Lectio Divina; Simply Love: Lessons from The Cloud of Unknowing
• Prayer Toward Union: Lessons from St. Teresa of Avila
• Transformation in Christ: Lessons from Blessed James Alberione
• Wrapped in the Heart of God: Lessons from Simone Weil; The Courtesy of God: Lessons from Blessed Julian of Norwich
• Deepening Commitment
• Praying in the Darkness
• Getting Your Inside World Put Right
• Your Life Repeated in My Life
• The Way of God
• The Ultimate Reliability of God
• Silence
• Becoming Aware
• You Are My God
• Rumblings and Resistance
• Being Called by Name
• A Prayer of Inner Healing
• A Contract With Yourself
• Examen
• Prayer of Transformation

• What Contemplation is Not
• Searching for God
• The Mystery of Sadness in Contemplative Life
• Darkness, Emptiness, Aloneness
• Praying Contemplatively: Christian Meditation
• Infused Prayer
• Prayer and Fasting
• The Great Silence
• Gifts of the Spirit
• The Living Word
• Holy Eucharist; Blessed Sacrament
• Holy Friendship
• A Life of Charity
• Contemplative Love
• Conversion and Repentance
• Humility is the Soil
• The Marriage of Heart and Mind
• Mary, Mother of God, Contemplative Model
• Jesus, Son of Mary and Son of God
• The Evolution of Consciousness
• Living Contemplatively and Acting Justly
• From Mindlessness to Mindfulness
• Remembering the Body
• Remembering the Church