WCCM Audio
Audio channel of The World Community for Christian Meditation with news, interviews, talks and music. Contact: Leonardo Corrêa (leonardo@wccm.org)
Episodes
October 1, 2025 • 14 mins
Father Laurence Freeman explains that the theme of the John Main Seminar, 'INTEGRAL CHRISTIANITY: The Vision of Celtic Christianity for the Crisis of the 21st Century,' is urgent because the global environmental, political, and spiritual crises demand renewal. He asserts that to understand the way forward, we must draw inspiration from the past.
The next John Main Seminar will be held at Balally Barish, Dublin and online from 6 to...
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September 28, 2025 • 17 mins
Sunday 28 September 2025.
Contemplative Eucharist from Bonnevaux
Gospel Luke 16:19-31
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September 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Meditation doesn’t destroy desire, but it does transform desire. It puts you into touch with what you really want. In quite a radical way of sorting and simplifying ourselves, it puts you back into touch with your basic need, which is your basic desire. Then joy springs up.
Audio: Hamish
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September 14, 2025 • 11 mins
Sunday 14 September 2025, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Contemplative Eucharist from Bonnevaux
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Celtic Christianity was one of the most vibrant expressions of the Christ-event in history. In this interview, Fr Jim, parish priest & Cinzia Angius, parish manager at Balally Parish, Dublin share their reflections on what makes Celtic Wisdom relevant today, why Balally is a contemplative parish and on this year's John Main Seminar theme 'The Vision of Celtic Christianity for the Crisis of the 21st Century'. Learn more at https://w...
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September 7, 2025 • 18 mins
Luke 14:25-33 - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Homily by Laurence Freeman, Contemplative Eucharist from Bonnevaux, France
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September 3, 2025 • 59 mins
This is the first of a four-part series of talks in which Laurence Freeman draws on the wisdom of the early desert teachers as a contemporary way of understanding the human condition. The mothers and fathers of the early Christian desert combined spiritual insight with sharp psychological perception. You can watch the full collection at https://wccmplus.org/programs/the-eight-big-problems-of-life
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September 1, 2025 • 1 min
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"Meditation reveals human equality (We're all distracted) as well as our uniqueness: we are all called to be clear and to be calm."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
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August 29, 2025 • 4 mins
John Deane Irish poet and novelist is the founder of Poetry Ireland, Ireland ‘s National Poetry Society, and its journal “The Poetry Ireland Review”.
"I believe a good artist stands between God and Humanity and tries to link it"
John will be one of the speakers at the next John Main Seminar at Balally Parish, Dublin, Ireland 5 to 9 November, where speakers will explore the reappearance of Celtic Christian wisdom today at a critical...
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August 27, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"We can feel this fullness of being, pressing, wanting to be released through all that life continually presents to us. And although we may think we want to be fully alive, sometimes we resist it as well because it will change us."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September....
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August 21, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"The seeing of reality is the real life
purpose of the human being."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
#booklaunch #wccmbooks #laurencefreeman #tastingwisdom #contemplativeleaders #christianmeditation #twseries
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August 21, 2025 • 48 mins
As we emerge from crisis and seek renewal, Jesus’ command to “dwell in my love” throws us a lifeline, offering hope, vision, and the strength to live anew.'Dwell in my love' is the title of WCCM yearly retreat at Monte Oliveto, held at Abbazia Maggiore in Tuscany in 2022 and led by Fr Laurence Freeman, Benedictine monk & WCCM Director. You can watch the first full video reflection on WCCM video streaming platform, WCCM+. You can ch...
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August 14, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"The giving of attention is such a sacred and beautiful thing. The act of voluntary attention is also the very dynamic and heart of consciousness."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
More at https://meditatiocentrelondon.org/events
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August 8, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"For the true contemplatives of our Tradition, such as the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Contemplation
is not an escape from but a journey into communion, into relationship, into the present."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
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August 5, 2025 • 1 min
Reflections from Tasting Wisdom video 7
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"It is in heart consciousness rather than just mental consciousness that the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions of ourselves find harmony and unity and integration, oneness."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
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July 31, 2025 • 2 mins
Meditation helps us to find again what we have lost. It helps us to recover. And how does it do that? In a simple but in a radical way.
Reflections from Tasting Wisdom video 6
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"Meditation helps us to find again what we have lost. It helps us to recover. And how does it do that? In a simple but in a radical way."
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July 29, 2025 • 2 mins
Reflections from Tasting Wisdom video 4
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"Recovery is healing. And by regaining the wholeness that we lost, we become more whole than we were before."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
You're welcome to join the book launch online or from London on 2 September.
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July 24, 2025 • 1 min
Reflections from Tasting Wisdom video 3
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"Meditation, the way we teach it, it is the work of the mantra, repeating the mantra. And this work is simple but demanding."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
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July 22, 2025 • 2 mins
Reflections from Tasting Wisdom 2
Fr Laurence’s reflecting on one of the passages of his newly launched book ‘Tasting Wisdom’:
"Our Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of God are intertwined."
Please come and join Laurence Freeman to celebrate his book launch, live in London or online on 2 September.
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