A contemplative way of life aspires to live each day honoring the sacred, recognizing the holiness of existence, striving to be love on earth, and opening one’s heart to the sorrow and the glory that is our world.

Beverly Lanzetta

New Program of Study for 2022

Celebrating the Sacred: A Program of Mystical Study with Beverly Lanzetta is an opportunity to devote oneself to a period of contemplative learning and practice; to deepen and sink into the profound questions and longings that animate the spiritual life. Participants will be guided through themes such as Contemplation and Inner Freedom, Engaging with Spirit on Earth, the Mystical Path of the Feminine and Radical Mercy, and much more, via monthly emails and live online teachings with Dr. Lanzetta. More information is available here. 

Recent Work

Sacred Seasons is a collection of spiritual wisdom drawn from the expressive writings of Beverly Lanzetta. As a daily practice, the meditative entries call us into living light of the Divine, encouraging us to slow down and savor the gift of sacred time. There are moments when we feel as if Spirit were reaching out to us personally. It is hoped that the meditations in this book will be another touch from the Sacred, a little opening into the world on the other side of the precious veil that conceals the holy and beautiful.

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A Feast of Prayers is a joyful companion to sanctifying each day. The impulse to pray is universal. From the moment of birth, until death stills our breath, each human heart, each soul, recites a ceaseless prayer, the very existence of our spirit in physical form an invocation toward the divine. Prayer is the language of the spirit. It is our first language. A Feast of Prayers contains morning, afternoon, and evening prayers for each day of the week. Vigils are included for morning and night, as well as prayers for special occasions

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A New Silence focuses on the inner transformation and spiritual practices that guide us to live for the Holy and for the good of creation. It is a practical companion for anyone seeking to be a monastic or contemplative presence in the world. Offered for explorers on the edge—for those who are between religions, those who have abandoned faith but yet seek, those who are interspiritual, or those who are rooted in their faith tradition and are going deeper—this is both path and accompaniment for the journey.

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The Monk Within is written for the person seeking a deeper, contemplative orientation to daily life. Yearning for inner realization of divine wisdom, this “new monk” draws on four interlocking themes: embodied spirituality grounded in the sacred web of life; the mystical path of the feminine, inspired by women’s monastic communities; the archetype of the monk that is the deep truth of every person; and the interdependence of the world’s wisdom traditions, expressed through interfaith, interspiritual dialogue

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