CLICK HERE to view Fr. Laurence Freeman’s 15th anniversary greeting to the WCCM Neptune Beach Center community.

Come celebrate the history of the all-volunteer non-profit Center through photos, music, meditation, and a special message from Fr. Laurence. Join us on Sunday, September 17 from 3:30 p.m. to 4: 30 p.m. EDT at the Seveilla Condominium Clubhouse in Atlantic Beach or online at this hybrid event.

Donate Online: CLICK HERE

Mail Checks Payable to WCCM: 1112 Third Street Suite #9, Neptune Beach, FL 32266

Join us on Saturdays, January 9 - January 28, for Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton: Adjusting Your Life’s Vision from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. EST.

The facilitator is Marion Panyan, a native of Louisville, KY, who lives with her husband, Steve, in Des Moines, IA.  She is a retired profession from Drake University, and she also taught for 11 years at Johns Hopkins’ School of Education. Marion is a co-member of the Sisters of Loretto. She spent three years in the novitiate at Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, KY, where she heard Thomas Merton speak to her class. Merton was a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemane located near Loretto.

We thank you for your prayers and for your continued financial support. There are three ways to donate:

• Checks made to WCCM can be dropped thru the mail slot by the front door of the Center

• Mail Checks: WCCM 1112 Third St. Suite #9 Neptune Beach, FL 32266 Attention: Linda

• Paypal: Please CLICK HERE to make a donation online.

'Meditation creates community' and community create the roots of our Center. Thank you for watering the roots!

LISTENING WITH THE EAR OF THE HEART

Waiting in Joyful Hope
Guided by Linda Kaye and Kathleen Patneau

Jesus is born again in every moment if believers have the eyes to see him in others, the ears to hear his teachings in daily events, the hearts to be in conversation with him in prayer.

– Judith Sutera OSB

Thursday, December 1, 2022 • 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

St. Joseph’s Renewal Center • 234 St George St., St. Augustine, FL

Registration $35 • Lunch Included

To register, please contact Linda at 904-352-9970, or via email at wccmneptunebeach@att.net or lindakayec@gmail.com.

LISTENING WITH THE EAR OF THE HEART

“What are you looking for?” John 1:3

God, my God, with You it is always the same thing! Always the same question that nobody knows how to answer! While I am asking questions that You do not answer, You ask me a question that is so simple that I cannot answer it. I do not even understand the question.

-Thomas Merton

Saturday October 29, 2022 • Guided by Linda Kaye and Kathleen Patneau

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. • Lunch Included

St. Joseph’s Renewal Center • 234 St George St., St. Augustine, FL

Registration $35 • Make Check Payable to WCCM

Send Check to: 1112 Third Street Suite #9 • Neptune Beach, FL 32256 • Attention: Linda

More Information: wccmneptunebeach@att.net • Linda Kaye (904) 352-99770

Dear Companions on the way of meditation,

I'm writing out of the love that has grown in me for our online morning meditation community. I'm writing to ask you to consider joining me in providing some financial support for the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM). WCCM, in simple terms, enables our group to gather by providing the Zoom account and link for our morning gatherings. But there's more -- much more really.

Our online morning meditation group grew out of a morning group that met M-F at 7:00 am at the WCCM Neptune Beach Center in Neptune Beach, Florida. The Neptune Beach Center is the 'physical' home of WCCM-USA and has been in existence for 15 years. When COVID struck and the Center ceased in-person meetings attended by people who lived locally, it wasn't too long before our online group began meeting via Zoom.

What has evolved is an international morning group at a slightly later time every morning M-F.Our group has become for me my 'home' in cyberspace. But I'm aware that access to this cyberspace is a gift via the Zoom account and services provided by WCCM-USA and WCCM-International.

Contributions to WCCM-USA support the Center, the national work of WCCM, and enable WCCM-USA to, in turn, support WCCM-International. The WCCM Neptune Beach Center is an all-volunteer operation. We have an Executive Director and an Advisory Board all of whom serve without compensation.

Please consider making a contribution from time to time to support the Center and the larger WCCM-USA and International communities. WCCM-USA is an exempt organization and your contributions are tax-deductible (or can be made from your IRA account as a Qualified Charitable Donation). Any amount is appreciated and will help WCCM be a force to bring contemplative awareness and practice to a busy world that seems to have forgotten about silence.

If you are able to send what amounts to $5/month, WCCM would be most grateful, and you would have the gift of knowing you're helping 'keep the lights on' and the internet connection alive for all of us.

Thank you for being part of our community and know you are welcomed and cherished regardless of your financial support.

Namaste,

Robert

Unified Consciousness

Love is the Meaning

Presented Online by Liz Watson

Four Saturdays in 2022 at 8:00 PM UK Time: April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21

Be sure to check your local time: https://worldtimebuddy.com/

You are invited to join fellow travelers around the globe as Liz takes us on a journey of awakening the mind and heart. She says: “Unified Consciousness is a beautiful and concise way to speak about the deepest truth of life. As we persevere with meditation we begin to see what it means in our own experience, how it changes the way we relate to who and what is around us in our daily lives."

Click here to view a video and photos from our 11th Anniversary Celebration!