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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.
Inconsolable: The Path of the Prophet-Mystic
April 1st, 2025
Our religious conditioning has carved a gulf between the prophet and the mystic, just as we have between action and contemplation and between transcendence and immanence. It’s easy to buy into the illusion that these two spiritual orientations are fundamentally and mutually exclusive. But you can, of course, be both
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III on Thriving in Turbulent Times
March 28th, 2025
We love the opportunity to sit down and go deeper with authors featured in our Daily Meditations. Today, we invite you into this conversation with activist Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III — perhaps you will even discover a new perspective on our 2025 Daily Meditation theme Being Salt and Light.
In this video
CAC Honors March Holy Days and Holidays | Women’s History Month, Lent, International Women’s Day, and Purim
This month the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)’s online contemplative community honors the holidays that invite us to step into a sense of stillness, celebration, and action.
Women’s History Month: Witness the Divine Feminine
How do you welcome the Divine Feminine into your life? This Women’s
Cultivating Prophetic Wisdom | News from New Mexico
Explore your spiritual depths with these resources from the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)! Our monthly newsletter, the News from New Mexico, shares details about offerings designed to deepen prayer practice and strengthen compassionate engagement in the world.
These upcoming experiences can help you
Noé Barnett Embraces our Enduring Creativity
March 7th, 2025
The trailer for Richard Rohr's new book “The Tears of Things”, making art is a metaphor for the prophetic process — but it also stands for prophetic process itself. The aggressive strokes reflect pain, his hammering evokes anger, and the water and tears represent our collective grief resolving into compassion.
CAC Faculty Explore Prophetic Wisdom
February 28th, 2025
As we prepare for the release of Richard Rohr’s new book, The Tears of Things (available March 4, 2025), we look to the wisdom of the CAC Faculty for insight on what it means to be a prophet in our confusing times.
Often beginning with anger, prophetic voices express difficult truths that the center of society