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Preparing for Christmas, Richard Rohr's small book of daily meditations, offers a mini-retreat for what can be a busy time. Consider gifting this to someone you love, introducing them to Father Richard and a new way of experiencing Advent.

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Join Cynthia Bourgeault in an online course as she reclaims Mary Magdalene’s rightful place as one of Jesus’ most important and beloved disciples: January 16-March 12.

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Our bookstore carries hundreds of titles by core faculty Richard Rohr, James Finley, and Cynthia Bourgeault. Explore their insights on contemplation, Trinity, Thomas Merton, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and more.

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Join Richard Rohr, Jacqui Lewis, and John Dominic Crossan for a special conference, The Universal Christ: Another Name for Every Thing. March 28-31, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or online.

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Enjoy Richard Rohr’s homilies here or find his podcast on iTunes. Fr. Richard speaks occasionally at his local parish, Holy Family Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short sermons are recorded and made available by the CAC.

You can practice this “I love you” prayer in little passing moments as you go through your day, as you awaken in the middle of the night. — James Finley Read Love: Week 1 Summary

God looks at us and always sees Christ, and God thus finds us always and entirely lovable. God fixes God’s gaze on our shared, divine nature. — Richard Rohr Read Our Holiness Is God’s Holiness

This is the dance of intimacy: as we ask one another for forgiveness, as we confess to one another that once again we didn’t do it right. — Richard Rohr Read The Challenge and Opportunity in Relationship

To love God is to love what God loves. To love God means to love everything . . . no exceptions. — Richard Rohr Read Seeing with God’s Eyes

What I let God see and accept in me also becomes what I can see and accept in myself. And it becomes that whereby I see everything else. — Richard Rohr Read The Meaning of Spiritual Love

God created this evolving universe because God is Love and each of us is God’s gift to the world. — Louis Savary and Patricia Berne Read Evolving in Love

The whole universe story has come into being because God is a hidden treasure who longs to be known. — Cynthia Bourgeault Read Unity in Differentiation

God cannot be known by thinking but by experiencing and loving. I hope you will take some time to connect with Love in your lived experience. — Richard Rohr Read Love: Week 2 Summary

Death is the experience of “no exit,” a recognition that the situation is inescapable, that one is utterly at the mercy of the Ground of Being. — Kathleen Dowling Singh Read The Ground of Being

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit. — Kathleen Dowling Singh Read Nearing Death

Twice a year we pause the Daily Meditations to ask for your support. When I founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in 1987—and even when we began sending my Daily Meditations in 2007—I never imagined how this work would evolve and grow, thanks to our donors’ generosity. — Richard Rohr Read Support the Center for Action and Contemplation

As we develop mature emotional and spiritual practices, we become able to incorporate that which we have denied. — Richard Rohr Read The Illusion of Separation

“We must wait and work with hope inside of the darkness—never doubting the light that God always is, and that we are, too. That is the narrow birth canal of God into the world.”

"What if Christ is a name for the transcendent within of every 'thing' in the universe? What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true Love?"

"When we see who Mary Magdalene—Apostle to the Apostles—really is, we see what Christianity really is, what it could have been, and pray to God, can still become."

"Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged in contemplation, we rest in God resting in us. We are at home in God at home in us."

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