How to listen during praying?

[Jesus_123]

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Just a note on Centering Prayer.
Any discussion on this topic is banned in this forum.

If you would like to learn about Catholic Answers view of CP, as well as related links from Vatican documents regarding divergent forms of spirituality that have crept into the Catholic Church, you can find them here here:

rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2009/06/05/centering-prayer-ie-keating-menninger-herington

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[TheBoss918]

This Catholic Answers Forum is owned and maintained by others than ourselves . . . peacefully honoring and obeying the owners of this internet “house” . . . or honoring and obeying rules re any persons property where we have been welcomed . . .* is a duty of simple respect . . .* and very important if we want to continue to be received as** “welcome”** guests . . .

. . . all for Jesus+
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. . . Prince of the Heavenly Hosts+
. . . please protect Catholic Answers Forum+
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am right now contacting the moderators to request that this ban be lifted. Those who oppose Centering Prayer, just as those supporting it, are acting on their own intellect. Views on Centering Prayer are neither Dogma nor doctrine.

I know I am making a big deal about this, but I feel Centering Prayer is a wonderful way of growing closer to Christ. While I welcome views other than my own, I also get upset when valid views are censored in the name of the Church, when the Church herself has never condemned the practice. Any priest or religious I have ever talked to about CP has either embraced it, recommended it, or at least said nothing is wrong with it.

As I said, with respect to the moderators, I will contact them and request the ban to be lifted, and will post no more about this topic until said ban is lifted.