Benedictus Evening Meditation

Joining in

We join with the Benedictus community in an evening meditation practice on Zoom.

Including time spent in silence with some input of a poem or prayer and then fellowship shared afterward.

The up-to-date link to join in at meditation can be found on the Benedictus website home page. 

How to meditate

If you come to Benedictus with an existing practice of silent meditation, you are welcome to continue meditating in the way you know.

If you are new to meditation, we suggest the method taught by the World Community for Christian Meditation, as follows:

• To meditate, sit still and upright.
• Close your eyes lightly.
• Sit relaxed but alert.
• Silently, interiorly begin to say a single word.
• We recommend the prayer-phrase, ‘Maranatha’.
• Say it as four syllables of equal length.
• Listen to it as you say it, gently but continuously.
• Do not think or imagine anything – spiritual or otherwise.
• If thoughts and images come, these are distractions at the time of meditation, so keep returning simply to saying the word.