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CZECH REPUBLIC
FROM THE HEART
    Welcome from Prague.

    The following are my lines, my early winter contribution, on Christian
    Meditation here in the country, the Czech Republic. It is my meditation on
    meditation. In other words, it is my poor meditation on the subject matter
    that has become rich in all its aspirations.

    It is early after Christmas and only a couple of hours before the end of
    the old and the beginning of the new year. The snow lies everywhere. Its
    virgin colour is offering its innocent dreams to decipher. The sun is
    hiding behind the clouds. It is visible, yet its beauty is not clear. It is a
    typical wintry Czech sky, promising to reign for many long days to come:
    the sun veiled, yet always present; the snow too deep to uncover the
    warmth of its shroud.

    This metaphor can be said not only about a winter day somewhere in
    Bohemia but it can be applied to the Christian meditation here in the
    country as well.

    Our meditation group has been together for more than one year. It is a
    small group. There were people who came and went. However, the core
    of the group, about six people now, meets every Wednesday at 7.30 pm
    in a small room, which serves as a library, in our church and Augustinian
    monastery in Prague’s Lesser Town. It is rather cold place: no luxury
    and comfort anywhere to be found. If you want to read more about the
    monastery, you can open www.augustiniani.cz, also in English.

    In the past few weeks, the monastery has been under reconstruction
    and when it is finished sometime in the springtime, we should have our
    own room for our meditation sessions. I do trust this modest wish will
    come true. It is necessary for our group and other activities to thrive and
    move on.

    Since December 2005, I have been translating Father Laurence’s Pearl
    of Great Price book into Czech. This book should be translated and
    published in the second half of 2006. I have also managed to secure the
    publication of John Main’s Word Into Silence book into Czech with a local
    publishing house. These two books should be very helpful in our further
    activities of Christian Meditation in the country.

    There are a lot of very good books published here in the Czech Republic
    but only one so far with the Christian Meditation topic, John Main’s
    Moment of Christ. However, there are no meditation groups in the
    country that are actively involved in meditation in the light of John Main’s
    message. Well, at least I am not aware of any such group.

    So it is like the wintry day hovering over the country. We know the light is
    there, the sun is shining, yet it is still cloudy and cold. It is about time to
    start listening to the silent change of the weather forecast – in faith and
    stillness and perseverance.

    Greetings to you all from Prague.

    Karel Foustka
    Czech Republic
    January 2006