Center for Action and Contemplation

Join wisdom teachers Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault, and James Finley in an immersive experience of study and practice in the Christian contemplative tradition. Apply for the two-year Living School program today!

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CAC offers self-paced, online courses to support spiritual formation. Deepen your understanding of Fr. Richard Rohr’s teachings through guided study and reflection. Register now for Immortal Diamond, Breathing Under Water, or The Franciscan Way.

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Receive Richard Rohr’s free daily or weekly emails. Fr. Richard’s meditations help us rediscover Christianity’s essential, contemplative teachings and rebuild our spirituality “From the Bottom Up.”

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The spring issue of Oneing features both scholarly reflections and stories of transformative experiences from Paula D’Arcy, Wm Paul Young, Cynthia Bourgeault, Sam Shriver, poet David Whyte, and many others.

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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.

Know that your True Self, though perhaps less visible than ego and persona, is spacious and objective. — Richard Rohr Read True Self and False Self: Week 1 Summary

Merton’s message is that our own deepest self is one with the “Risen and Deathless Christ in Whom all are fulfilled in One.” — James Finley Read Our Ultimate Identity

The spiritual life is a journey in which we discover ourselves in discovering God, and discover God in discovering our true self in God. — James Finley Read Discovering Self in Discovering God

We are not very good at recognizing the illusions we cherish about ourselves—the ones we are born with and which feed the roots of sin. — Thomas Merton Read The Illusion of Our False Self

Our true self is a received self. At each moment, we exist to the extent we receive existence from God who is existence. — James Finley Read Freedom to Be Our True Self

“The One Who Is” sustains us in existence. Our reality is truly our own, given to us by God, but it is nevertheless a received reality. — James Finley Read Existence

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"The more we are transformed in compassion, the more we are impelled to act with compassion toward others."

"Trinity is a pattern in the very fabric of reality—coded into all of creation. It offers a fresh understanding of a creative and contemplative engagement in the world."

"To be transformed is to look out at reality from a new source and center, seeing things in a larger and more holistic way."

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