Father Laurence Freeman OSB. A hero.

Father Laurence Freeman, a hero for meditation

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I was lucky to have a meeting with Father Laurence Freeman OSB this week. Ever kind and gracious, he appears to have all the time in the world for you although his inner clock is tuned in to his watch for midday prayers and meditation. The mark of this man is his inner immobility which communicates itself to you and invites you to consider the world more still than moving.  And as he travels the world, Venezuela, Ireland, Australia just in the last few weeks, meetings with trustees, with bankers, with doctors and so kindly with me too, he needs to have an inner immobility otherwise he would be walking jet lag!  The World Community of Christian Meditation which he leads has bought a chateau in Bonnevaux, France which will give them a centre to bring the mission of meditation for all, to reality.  I like the fact that its name already has Bonne in it, and then Va ux which means place or spot.  So already this is a good place.  You can read about it from their website and even donate towards its renovation.  If you come to ST Martin-in-the-Fields on November 23rd or you click on the sparkly globe on the just this day website you can meditate with him and then hear him speak about transcendence.  You will experience transcendence of its own kind when you do that.  You will be transcending the normal Wednesday experience, you will be transcending place and time because you might be watching in Australia in the evening and we are there in the morning but most important you will be listening with us to a FREE MAN by name and by calling.  He is calling us to be Free in the name of Christ whose message has always seemed to me to be saying Come to me and be free of all your troubles, be free of concerns for the things of this world, they will look after themselves, be free of the opinions of others, be free of feeling a success or a failure and above all be free to be yourself, just as you are.