M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. (1931–2005) was an American Trappist priest and leading spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, and director. Pennington was...

Spencer, Massachusetts in the 1970s, Fr. William Meninger, Fr. M. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating, in response to the growing popularity of...

contemplative prayer movement, retired in 1981. Keating, William Meninger, and Basil Pennington held retreats at the abbey to teach this method of prayer. Another...

Rockdale County helped with the completing of the current structure. M. Basil Pennington, one of the founders of the Centering Prayer movement, was abbot of...

Pennington is a surname indicating a family origin in Pennington, Cumbria. Other branches include members from an area of Surrey, London, Yorkshire, Hampshire...

that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in 1975. William Meninger and Basil Pennington, also Trappist monks, were the method's other principal developers...

of Lectio divina. Cistercian Publications. ISBN 978-0-87907-231-5. Basil Pennington (1998), Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the...

Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 2 June 2019. M. Basil Pennington, OCSO. "The Cistercians: An Introductory History". The Order of Saint...

Christian meditation developed by Trappist monks William Meninger, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating in the 1970s. It also informed the meditation techniques...

The works of Bernard of Clairvaux. Vol.1, Treatises, 1, edited by M. Basil Pennington. Cistercian Fathers Series, no. 1. (Spencer, Mass.: Cistercian Publications...