A Discernment Process

A Discernment Process - 40-day study/practice in Lent

Five Fridays for Lent 2025: March 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11 

Time:  10 am - 11 am

In-person and Online

Location: In person at St. Thomas, 46048 Gore Avenue, Chilliwack BC 

Online via Zoom (link will be sent out after registration)

Facilitator: The Reverend Lorie Martin

This study/practice circle will engage with Thomas Keating's teaching and practice booklet on Discernment. This offering is 40-days of short, but powerful daily readings beginning on Ash Wednesday (March 5) along with a one-hour weekly circle gathering on Fridays in Lent (beginning on Fri. Mar. 14 - Apr 11). On-line participants will join a live circle group via Zoom. Together we will flow through the stages of this discernment process with the invitations to open to the Spirit, discern a question, observe, receive, and walk out the answer that comes.

Discernment Booklets can be purchased from Contemplative Outreach HERE 

or Booklet Digital Download HERE

The booklet reviews the five movements of a contemplative discernment practice and invites participants to use their own real-life questions during this 40-day praxis.  Each day includes a beautiful image, Scripture passages, brief readings and a suggested practice, as well as space for notes.  The booklet ends with an invitation to engage contemplative discernment as a way of life, bringing all matters small and large to the Holy Spirit and living with a disposition of deep listening and inner stillness. We will be with the daily invitations on our own and gather weekly to deepen into the experience together.

I have found this process to be incredibly enlightening and encouraging to help me be still and know God's voice and guidance. - Lorie. 

Registration fee options: $60, $40, $20, or full scholarship with no fee - When registering, please select the fee option that works for you.

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A Zoom link will be provided to registered participants to join the live circle. 

About Facilitator Lorie Martin

Lorie is passionate about creating sacred space and encountering Divine Love through nature, worship, and spiritual practices in solitude and community. Lorie is the priest at St. Thomas Chilliwack, Interparish co-ordinator of the Centre for Spiritual Renewal and on the board of directors of the Contemplative Society.