Centering Prayer is a contemplative prayer form. The goal is to rest in God's arms and maintain a presence with our Creator. We ask God to be present in our lives and the gifts that presence includes. By resting in the quiet, we open ourselves to receive what God has in store for us.

While we rest, we find thoughts passing through our consciousness. If we find ourselves "stuck" on a thought, we use a simple method of breaking that thought so that we can continue listening.

Centering prayer is a synthesis of other contemplative prayer methods, such as Lectio Divina (praying scripture), the Desert father and mothers, St. John of the Cross and St. Thesesa of Avila.

Centering Prayer is the distillation of other contemplative prayer practices and through the work of three Trappist monks, Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating dring the 1970's