Courtesy of CNS today, Christian meditation has been started at Georgetown.  Georgetown was founded as a Catholic university, so it’s interesting that we’re all surprised Christian meditation is going on there.

n the oldest building on the campus of the United States’ oldest Catholic university, Christian meditation has found a place to take root.

The structure — also the smallest building on the Georgetown University campus — is now home to a meditation center that had for two years before been based in a pair of adjoining row houses one block from campus.

In the center, organized meditation is offered twice a day, although students, faculty and staff can walk into the building at all hours for some moments of silent meditation.

I’ve not ever gotten into meditation, partly because I don’t have the attention span to sit still for long periods of time, and partly because I fear the counterfeit meditation that some Catholic folks try to imitate.  This sounds like it could be pretty good stuff, though this is a bit disturbing:

The Georgetown meditation session was flanked by two readings: one from a Chinese text called “Tao-Ching,” the other by the late Benedictine priest, Father John Main…

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