The meeting then begins with a pe-riod of Centering in which the new members can participate. There is time for questions and sharing after the Prayer. Some groups then have some input from a tape or a book. Others prefer to turn to lectio and share the next Sunday's Gospel. It is good, with such groups, to have a fixed schedule for mov-ing along and concluding.
Members can, of course, linger on, perhaps over refreshments, after the formal meeting is concluded.
A group does best if it has a stable leader or leadership team. That does not mean that in the actual meeting the different mem-bers cannot take turns leading the Prayer. Such alternation is good. The leader of the Prayer will open it with a brief expression of the movement in faith and love, coming into the Presence. At the end of the twenty minutes, she or he will pray the Our Father aloud at the same ample pace developed in daily Cen-tering.