Going Inside: Learning to Teach Centering Prayer to Prisoners - Softcover

Leonardini, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590565495 ISBN 13: 9781590565490

Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media, 2016

Synopsis

In Going Inside, the companion volume to his Finding God Within, Ray Leonardini offers a practical manual for all those who are engaged, or are thinking of becoming engaged, with contemplative (or centering) prayer in prison. With advice from his own experience as well as that of prisoners themselves, Going Inside is an essential tool to enable your centering prayer groups to be effective and transformative for everyone involved.

About this title

About the Author:

Ray Leonardini is a former lawyer who practiced government and nonprofit law for nearly 30 years. After his retirement, he turned toward his foremost area of interest: the Christian contemplative tradition. For the last nine years, as a volunteer chaplain, he has led meditation groups and taught contemplative prayer and the spiritual journey at Folsom State Prison in California. He is also the Director of the Prison Contemplative Fellowship, an association of current and former prison inmates, chaplains, and volunteers committed to reaching out to prisoners and their families on their travels along the spiritual path.

Review:

"I only wish I had this guidance and advice when I was a jail chaplain for fourteen years. You do not need to fly by the seat of your pants anymore! When you have access to a man as patient and experienced as Ray Leonardini, you would be wise to let him guide you―in one of the least supported and yet most needed ministries of Christianity." (Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation; author, Breathing under Water)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1590565495
• ISBN 13: 9781590565490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166