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<div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px">Further to our conversation on prayer at<span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"> our Zoom mass this past Sunday, here's more information about the meditation group that I have
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<div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black" class="elementToProof"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white">We practice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 250, 245)">meditation
as passed on through the teaching of John Main in the Christian tradition. </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:white"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px">We meet at 7pm on Monday and Tuesday.
We start with a 25-minute meditation followed by a short recorded talk by John Main or Laurence Freeman, another leader in this meditation tradition, and then a short discussion - an hour in total. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><b>If interested, please contact Sondra VanderVaart - sondra.vandervaart@gmail.com</b></div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An introduction to meditation:</span>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcMzQvYjuuw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">A Special Meditation Session with John Main OSB</a></div>
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A guided introduction to meditation by Father John Main, as part of John Main Anniversary (1926 - 1982) in 2018. John Main OSB is the founding inspiration of the WCCM and is recognised today as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time especially
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If you have any questions, call me or email. Happy to talk about it.</div>
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