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Rekindling Our Love for Creation in April’s “We Conspire” Series
April 25th, 2025
How can contemplation reawaken our love for the earth and one another? In April’s We Conspire series, we explore how contemplation invites kinship across difference and nurtures ecological justice. We reflect on Hildegard of Bingen’s green legacy, hear how the Franciscan Action Network embraces kinship with those
Reciprocity with Creation
April 25th, 2025
How does having a reciprocal relationship with the natural world shift our beliefs and actions? In April’s “We Conspire” series, Anna Johnson of Laudato Si’ Movement shares how a loving commitment to the natural world can create a sustainable future. “Contemplation,” she says, “allows us to open our
Kinship and Connection
April 25th, 2025
How does contemplation reorient us toward kinship and connection in a fractured world? In April’s “We Conspire” series, Michele Dunne, Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network (FAN), explores how Franciscan spirituality invites us to see all of creation—including people we fear or misunderstand—as
The Greenness of Nature and God
April 25th, 2025
How does contemplation awaken us to the divine presence in nature? In April’s “We Conspire” series, we reflect on the vibrant legacy of Hildegard of Bingen—a 12th-century mystic, healer, and visionary—who revealed the deep connection between the soul, the natural world, and the divine.
Hildegard of
Carmen Acevedo Butcher on Being Salt and Light
April 23rd, 2025
As we continue connecting with our 2025 Daily Meditations theme Being Salt and Light, we invite you to reflect more deeply with CAC Affiliate Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher.
Carmen explores new perspectives from this classic teaching from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.
What would it mean to you to
“The Way of the Pilgrim” | Season 9 Wrap-Up of “Turning to the Mystics”
Where has longing led you? Season 9 of “Turning to the Mystics” invited podcast listeners to journey to the heart of classic Russian mystical text, “The Way of the Pilgrim.”
Whether you're a seasoned seeker or new to the path, this season offered inspiration for the many encounters we experience as we walk
Discover Contemplation with New Eyes | News from New Mexico
Discover what’s ahead for the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)! In this month’s installment of our monthly newsletter, the News from New Mexico, we invite you to explore offerings to support your spiritual growth and inspire your journey.
Whether it’s reading the Daily Meditations, listening to a
Spring 2025 Mendicant Introduction
April 1st, 2025
Since Fr. Richard published The Universal Christ in 2019, many of us on the CAC team heard him say, “If I ever wrote another book, which I assuredly don’t have the energy to do, it would be on the way of the prophet, and what the prophetic lineage has to teach us.”
I must have heard Richard say that a dozen
“The Tears of Things”
April 1st, 2025
In the first book of Virgil’s Aeneid (line 462), the hero Aeneas gazes at a mural that depicts a battle of the Trojan War and the deaths of his friends and countrymen. He is so moved with sorrow at the tragedy of it all that he speaks of “the tears of things” (lacrimae rerum). As Seamus Heaney translates it
Dancing with the Divine Fire
April 1st, 2025
Beloved CAC faculty member Dr. Barbara Holmes, known to her students affectionately as “Dr. B.,” passed away in late 2024. A giant in our contemplative community, she embodied a rare wisdom and impacted countless people. In a video recorded for Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations shortly before her death, Dr. B.