The 2009 John Main Seminar will be held at The Christian Meditation Centre, St Mark's Myddelton Square, London on August 28-30. Join the WCCM International community in prayer and contemplation to reflect and meditate on the universal tradition of meditation. This year's speaker is Fr. Robert Kennedy SJ, Jesuit Priest and Zen master.**John Main was was a Benedictine monk, priest, and contemplative who presented a way of Christian meditation which utilizes the practice of a prayer-phrase (known as "mantra" in the East). In 1970's, Fr. Main began Christian meditation groups at his monastery in London, England and, later, in Montreal, Canada. These grew into an ecumenical network of Christian meditation groups called the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM). After Thomas Merton and along with Thomas Keating, Henri Nouwen, and David Steindl-Rast, he has helped recover and reintroduce the contemplative practices of the early Church, especially the Desert Fathers.
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