Join us for a Celebration of the Coming of the Light into the world and into our lives through readings, songs, prayers, and the lighting of candles. This annual celebration is a beautiful addition to your holiday season.
When: December 24th, 7:00 PM
Where: Celebration Center, 2830 Graham Road, Suite 220, Falls Church, VA
Celebration Concert at Celebration Center
Saturday, March, 9th 7:30-9:00pm.
Celebrating 100 Years of Science of Mind.
Featuring:
–Amy Conley
-Soulpajamas
-Jim and Ashley Cash (Woven Green) .
-Nina Gibson and LeAnne Gioeli
Tickets on sale now: $20
For more information and to reserve tickets please call- 571 318 1722.
Michael Zawadzki
This workshop is Canceled. Jim and Ashley Cash (Woven Green) will be leading us in a drum making workshop. In this workshop, we are focusing on the universal aspect of drums and drumming, and especially on the sacredness of the act and commitment of giving voice to our deepest and best intentions. This workshop is open to people of all faiths and cultural backgrounds to gather together focusing our spiritual intentions for the kind of world wish to build. We appreciate culture and traditions and are inspired by them, but are not claiming any one group’s cultural traditions.
Smudging Ceremony Meditation – Honoring the elements, water, air, fire, , and the four directions. Calling the spirit of your drum, preparing the hoop, pulling the hides and creating your mallet. Setting your intention – offering your drum in service.
When: Saturday, December 14, 2019, 1:00-4:30 p.m.
Where: Celebration Center for Spiritual Living, 2830 Graham Road, Suite 220, Falls Church, VA
Cost: Must Register by December 1 – see registration details below
When you arrive for the workshop, the heads and lacings will have been soaked in ceremonial water. After the initial smudging ceremony, meditation and blessing, you will learn to weave the lacing on your drum in the four directions pattern. This will be an opportunity for you to begin connecting with the spirit of your drum.
Once we complete the drum lacing, we will then create the beater for your drum. If you have some special beads or feathers which you’d like to decorate your drum you may also bring them. The drum will take 2-3 days to fully dry before it can be played. The drum face can later be painted if desired.
We recommend playing your drum often for maximum effect! Use it for healing, meditation, or to help empower social justice gatherings and marches! These drums are made with love and intended for service!
Must pre-register on or before 12/1/19 by 11:00 A.M.
Limited to 13 participants COST: Varies by drum size and leatherRegister at: wovengreenmusic.com/event/drum12-14-19
Clean out your closets, garage and storage unit!
“Treasures” that have lived in the dark for a year have earned
their opportunity to join someone else’s household.
Help sort items on Friday October 5th and/or sell on Saturday October 6th
AND… come shop for new-to-you treasures on Saturday!
Questions? Call Inge Schweiger at (703) 560-2030
Mark your calendar for Friday, March 30th, when once again, our Practitioners will lead our traditional, sacred, Good Friday meditations. 30-minute sessions will be held from 3:00 – 8:00 P.M. Come in at any time. Take time for yourself, to release whatever burdens you, so that on Easter Sunday you will be free to be who you truly are.
The schedule of presenters is as follows:
3:00 Rev. Faith Woods
3:30 Sue Ellen
4:00 Suzanne Lacey, RScP
4:30 Ed Preston, RScP
5:00 Tammi McKinley, RScP
5:30 Richard Kurascewisz, RScP
6:00 Irina
6:30 Rev. Channahsorah
7:00 Tim Phares, RScP
7:30 Suzanne Delahaie, RScP
This is a special meditation which centers on the transition from one year to the next through the experience of the Burning Bowl Ceremony. This meditative journey allows one to release the past year through our special process using flash paper. Each one then affirms goals for the New Year in the form of a personal letter that is mailed back to you later next year. Everyone is invited to attend.
When: Thursday, December 27th, 7:00 P.M.
Where: Celebration Center, 2840 Graham Road, Falls Church, VA
Nationally-known keynote speaker Cary Bayer and New York- and Florida-based Life Coach (www.carybayer.com), who’s worked with Oscar-winners Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine), and Pietro Scalia (JFK, Black Hawk Down), Emmy-winners comedian/director David Steinberg (Academy Awards presentations) and Judy Henderson (Homeland), and Quality Inns, will be teaching a powerfully-transformative class that helps you answer the question, “Why am I here?”
What college student hasn’t pondered the existential question, “Why am I here?” Others have asked, “Who am I?” Pilate asked Jesus, “What is Truth?” All of these questions are answered profoundly in the workshop, “Discover Why You Are Here.”
It looks at four main reasons why you’re here:
The workshop will show you how effortlessly meditation can bring you to an experience of your true Self. It will teach a technique to help you come to peace with anyone and everyone in your life who you are not at peace with. It will also show you how to discover your Dharma. Lastly, it will inspire you to create a project that can help heal the world.
Where: Celebration Center for Spiritual Living, 2840 Graham Road, Falls Church, VA
When: Sunday, July 1, 2018, 1:00 – 3:30 PM
Investment: $25 in advance by June 30th/$35 at the door
Immerse yourself in the experience of Evensong, an hour of prayer, meditation, chanting and music to honor the setting of the sun.
When: the 3rd Sunday of each month, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Celebration Center Sanctuary
Join us in an infinitely meaningful time that draws from many traditions and faiths.
Interspiritual Contemplative Circle offers an opportunity to share, draw from, honor, and abide in faiths and traditions, while we see each other as an instrument, a mirror, a channel, in Agape love, with receptive hearts and minds.
The Sanctuary opens early for those who would like a time of silent meditation. Our time together includes melodic chanting, brief silent meditation, and reflective writing. You are invited to take part, reflect, contemplate, listen to one another, and to share as you choose.
2018 Dates: April 29, July 29, September 30, and December 30
Love offerings welcome.
The Facilitator: Interfaith-oriented since birth, Rev. Channahsorah is an ordained Interfaith Minister and a graduate of the Shalem Institute’s Transforming Community: Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats – Going Deeper. Her callings are in bridge-building and fostering mutual understanding among people from various cultures, faiths, and traditions. Invited for 5th Sunday: Lata & Ganesh of Mohanji Group.
Celebration Center for Spiritual Living is a multi-cultural spiritual community with shared commitments to love, service, and authenticity—all working towards a world that works for everyone.
A Letter from Dr. Kenn:
Let Us Raise Our Consciousness and End This Senseless Violence
Our hearts are broken open once again by senseless violence and unjustifiable use of force against African Americans in the United States. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are the latest names added to a list that is far too long. Like many, I am tempted to decry a growing epidemic, but in truth this violence is not new. What is new is social media and cell phone cameras that have raised the level of general public awareness of a persistent issue. And let us be clear about what the issue is; this is not a policing issue, nor is it not a gun issue. This is a consciousness issue. Our modern technology is giving us a gift. The gift to see what is really going on. Our social media reveals that which has always been true – that we are all connected. To quote Mother Teresa “we belong to each other.” Through this connection we see the devastating pain and discomfort that comes when we engage in behavior that breaks the bond of that inherent spiritual connection. We must be willing to be uncomfortable and stay uncomfortable. What do we do as we sit in this discomfort once again?
Of course we pray. We pray not to take the pain away, but to enter into it and ask it to speak to us. It is time to come together to feel our collective pain so that we may reestablish our sacred covenant of belonging to one another. Once established in this bond we must act in accordance with it. This not just a call to prayer, this is a call to act. To act in affirmation of our sacred connection with the One Life of all. This is a time to affirm that all life is sacred. That #BlackLivesMatter and to do what is ours to do in helping create a world that works for everyone.
I encourage you to take time to pray and I encourage you to take time to discern what you can do to add to the awakening of humanity to its spiritual magnificence. There are many resources online to better educate ourselves of racism, white privilege and social action. We all can do something, read a book, take a class, join a movement….and we must. There are no quick and easy answers, there is only the measure of our willingness to create change.
If you or anyone in your community needs prayer, please seek out a CSL Center, a Practitioner or contact the CSL World Ministry of Prayer: worldministryofprayer.org
If you would like to learn more about how you and your community can be part of the solution to racism, please contact the diversity commission for a training in your center.http://diversity.csl.
Advice for White Folks in the Wake of the Police Murder of a Black Person
And for immediate possible action.
https://www.facebook.com/
Peace and Blessings,
Dr. Kenn Gordon, Spiritual Leader
