CAC Honors January Holy Days and Holidays | New Year’s Day, Epiphany, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day

This month the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)’s online contemplative community honors holy days and holidays that invite us find courage for rebirth and regrowth. 

New Year’s Day: Find a New Direction with Contemplative Prayer 

CAC founder Richard Rohr explains how contemplative prayer can support unveiling in our spiritual lives: “When we celebrate the beginning of a new year, we celebrate the rebirth of time. We wait for God to do new things. We wait for who we are. We wait for the coming of grace, for the revelation of God.” 

“Contemplative prayer is a form of unveiling, because it reveals what is going on beneath the polished and busy surfaces of our minds, our hearts, and our bodies.”  

What is being reborn in your life? Read the comments and share your prayer request on Facebook or Instagram.  

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Finding Your Prophetic Voice with Contemplative Prayer 

When we honor such a prophetic voice in American history — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — we honor his legacy, which invites each one of us to break free of our paralysis in the face of injustice to create a better world through nonviolent action.  

CAC faculty member Dr. Barbara Holmes described Dr. King as “a great contemplative, one who used the spiritual essence of nonviolence as a tool for liberating the social order and the spiritual authority of a denigrated people.”  

How do you find transcendent hope in the face of overwhelming anger and loss? Read the comments and share your prayer request on Facebook or Instagram.  

Discover How Contemplation Can Help Build Courage for Making Fresh Starts: 

• Explore practices like the I Love You prayer, Divine Feminine Blessing, Be Still and Know chant, and more. 
• Find your prophetic voice with essays in “ONEING: The Prophetic Path,” in print or PDF. 
• Listen to CAC faculty discuss new directions on the Everything Belongs podcast. 
• Follow us and join the conversation on Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.