Prayer Groups

Supporting Centering Prayer Practitioners…

At the heart of the Chapter are the various Centering Prayer groups across the area. Each Centering Prayer group has at its core the practice of a 20 minute Centering Prayer session. The groups spend the rest of the hour or hour and a half in reading a passage from scripture or related books, viewing a segment of a Fr. Thomas Keating video, engaging in Lectio Divina (a contemplative method of reading the scriptures), discussing certain texts or books important to the participants and ending with prayer requests (of course, not all at the same meeting!).

If you wish to start a new Centering Prayer group, please let us know. A facilitator could attend the group the first time, if you wish, and we would continue our assistance as needed.

A listing of the prayer groups we know of are below. If you’d like to have your prayer group added to the list, please let us know.

Daily
The Church of Conscious Harmony
Group meets in Theosis Chapel, under the sanctuary, or Online via Zoom
7:00 – 7:30 am CT (In-person or Online via Zoom.)
30 minutes of Centering Prayer to start the day. To join online, please see this link.
The Church of Conscious Harmony – Online via Zoom6:00 – 6:25 pm Central Time (Online via Zoom)25 minutes of Centering Prayer to bookend your day. For the Meeting ID, please see this link.
Metanoia Journey – Online via Zoom4:30 – 5:00 pm CT (Online via Zoom)30 minutes of Centering Prayer. For the Zoom link, please register at this link.
Mondays
Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church7:30 – 8:00 am via ZoomFor the Meeting ID, please contact:
Nancy Herlin
512-784-2627
Lake Travis Area 
Group meets in various members homes in Lakeway
7:00 – 8:00 pm  via Zoom. For the Meeting ID, please contact:
Marcia Dilly
512-944-0631
University United Methodist Church7:00 – 8:00 pm  via Zoom.Jan Reed
512-478-9387
Cedar Park First United Methodist Church
(Group meets in the sanctuary)
7:30 – 8:30 pm Hybrid (In-person and via Zoom)For the Meeting ID, please contact:
Steve Hamman
512-970-7789
Tuesdays
Chapel in Wesleyan Independent Living, 210 White Heron Drive, Georgetown. Check-in  and mask required 10:00  – 11:00 am
in-person
For meeting info, please contact:
Nancy Marsh 
512-863-9181
St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic Church
Annex Chapel
10:30 – 11:30 am For meeting info, please contact: Sandy Palacios
St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church – Salado (Chapel Meeting Rm) 2:30 – 3:30 pm Vicki Joy McClure
First Baptist Church of Austin 6:00 – 7:00 pm Jane Lowrimore
512-294-7884
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina 6:30 – 7:30 pm via Zoom. For the Meeting ID, please contact:
Phyllis Blees 512-426-1266
Unity Spiritual Center Pflugerville
7:00 – 8:30 pm via ZoomValerie Cary
512-323-6688
Wednesdays
First Baptist Church of Austin 6:15 – 6:35 pm
(Virtually this Summer)
Joe Smith
512-660-7927 (text)
First United Methodist Church– Boerne, TX (Jones Chapel) 4:55 – 6:30 pm via Zoom.For the Meeting ID, please contact: Chaplain Jenny Russell
423-504-4949
In various homes in South-Central Austin
(email for specifics)
7:00 – 8:30 pm via Zoom every other Weds Joe Gieselman
Thursdays
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – Waco 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Elizabeth Smith
254-753-4501
The Baha’i Center of Round Rock 6:30 – 7:30 pm Reed Amadon
713-478-0759
Fridays
Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church7:30 – 8:00 am via ZoomFor the Meeting ID, please contact:
Nancy Herlin
512-784-2627
St. Catherine of Siena, ATX 2:00 – 3:00 pm via Zoom and in-personFor the Meeting info, please contact: Marianne Metzner
512-203-5460
Saturdays
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church – 2128 Barton Hills Dr
(Contemplative Prayer Group meets in Grace Chapel.)
8:15 am
Sundays
Metanoia Journey
Centering Prayer/ Lectio Divina
8:30 – 9:30 am
via Zoom.
David Wallace
512-496-1744
Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church 9:45 – 10:45am
Janis Claflin
University United Methodist Church
Room S-200 – Second floor Sanctuary Bldg.
9:45 – 10:45am Jan Reed
512-478-9387

Note that we also have several Contemplative Church Services in the area.