Father Carl Arico is the Outreach Director for Contemplative Outreach, LTD, and will speak at the dinner and lead the retreat.  Contemplative Outreach is the international ecumenical organization founded by Thomas Keating twenty years ago to share the practice of Centering Prayer. Father Arico, a diocesan priest for 28 years, has spent the last 18 years talking to people all over the world about the power and practice of Centering Prayer. He is known for his humor and clarity in his teaching on Centering Prayer.  He also is the author of Taste of Silence.