Welcoming Prayer
The Welcoming Prayer is a method of actively letting go of thoughts and feelings that support the false-self system. It helps to dismantle the emotional programs of the false-self system and to heal the wounds of a lifetime by addressing them where they are stored — in the body. The method of the Welcoming Prayer includes noticing the feelings, emotions, thoughts and sensations in your body, welcoming them, and then letting them go. Practicing the Welcoming Prayer offers one the opportunity to make choices free of the false-self system — responding instead of reacting to the present moment.
The purpose of the Welcoming Prayer is to deepen one´s relationship with God through consenting to God's presence and action in the ordinary activities of daily life. In this way, the Welcoming Prayer supports all forms of prayer, like Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, which share the purpose of growing in relationship with God through consenting to His presence and action.
“Faith is opening and surrendering to God. The spiritual journey does not require going anywhere because God is already with us and in us.”
Open Mind, Open Heart
~ Thomas Keating
“Faith is opening and surrendering to God. The spiritual journey does not require going anywhere because God is already with us and in us.”
Open Mind, Open Heart, ~ Thomas Keating
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."
~ Proverbs 3:5-6
Central Ontario Groups

Group |
(Co) Faciitator |
Telephone |
Email |
Barrie | June Campbell | 705-726-1773 | dnc@mcw.net |
Beeton | Marilyn Brandon | 905-729-3923 | brandon3923@sympatico.ca |
Brampton | Tom Manley | 905-453-1645 | barb-manley@rogers.com |
Brampton | Sue Woollard | 647-302-8596 | sue.woollard@rogers.com |
Burlington–St Luke's | Rev. Stuart Pike | 905-634-1826 | pikes123@sympatico.ca |
Hamilton | Nicole Smith | nicolesmith@gmail.com | |
Kitchener | Ken Hull | 519-579-8335 | krhull@uwaterloo.ca |
Markdale | Lynn Wyvill | 519-986-3707 | lynnwyvill@everus.ca |
Markham–Unionville | Johnson Ling | 416-495-1067 | jr.ling@rogers.com |
Midland/Penetang | Teresa Marchildon | 705-999-1926 | teresa.marchildon@yahoo.com |
Newmarket | Steve – Norma Parrotte | 905-713-1115 | parrotte@rogers.com |
Oakville/Bronte-Walton Mem. United Church | Cathy Wynn | 905-847-8972 | cowinn@cogeco.ca |
Oakville/Burlington | Joan Vinall-Cox | 905-845-4620 905-847-6195 |
joan.vinallcox@gmail.com |
Orillia | George Sanders | 705-325-4001 | georgesanders@teksavvy.ca |
St. Catherines | Brenda Coleman | 905-646-1995 | bcoleman@bell.net |
Thornhill | Lisa Des Vignes | 416-543-6140 | lisadesvignes@yahoo.ca |
Toronto-Don Mills (Korean Community) | John Shin | 905-709-0414 | kangshin@gmail.com |
Toronto-East - Scarborough | Kathy Murtha | 416-261-7135 | kathymurtha83@gmail.com |
Toronto-East | Ellen Herie | 416-698-1358 | elherie_40@yahoo.ca |
Toronto-East | Shelley McVea | 416-694-4516 | shelleymcvea@gmail.com |
Toronto-Midtown | Mary Alice O´Connor Hayes | 416-493-8521 | maryalice1@bell.net |
Toronto-Midtown | Mary Catherine Doyle | 416-485-4929 | marycatherinedoyle@gmail.com |
Toronto-North St. Clements´s Wed 1:30 pm |
Martha Dvorak Freda Perry |
416-482-9290 416-482-0975 |
dvorakmartha@gmail.com dfperry@bell.net |
Toronto-North St. Leonard´s (Mon pm) |
Peter Catt | 416-484-9620 | ppetercatt@gmail.com |
Toronto-West | Marie-Noëlle Maillard Olga Kolisnyk |
416-769-6278 416-767-4542 |
logos302@sympatico.ca olga.kolisnyk5@gmail.com |
Toronto-West (Korean Community) | Gregory Lee | 416-620-0479 | gregdhl@hotmail.com |
Welland | Anthony Gatti | ajmgatti@gmail.com | |
Whitby | Hazel Motomura | hazelmo@rogers.com | |
Whitby | Stewart Ball Anne Williams |
905-556-1151 | canbaj@rogers.com annewilliams297@gmail.com |
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“The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.”
~ Fr. Thomas Keating