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Cosmology: Part One: Weekly Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on August 31, 2019

Cosmology: Part One Summary: Sunday, August 25—Friday, August 30, 2019 Religious thinkers . . . are searching for a new synthesis of science and faith, a new cosmology, and a “new story.” —Denis Edwards (Sunday) Now that we are coming to understand the magnificent nature of the cosmos, we’re finding that many of the intuitions… Continue Reading Cosmology: Part One: Weekly Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Christ, cosmology, Creation, God, practice, prayer, universe, wonder

Prophets: Part Two: Weekly Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on July 13, 2019

Prophets: Part Two Summary, Sunday, July 7—Friday, July 12, 2019 The biblical notion of justice, beginning in the Hebrew Scriptures with the Jewish prophets—especially Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Hosea—is quite different than retributive justice. If we read carefully and honestly, we will see that God’s justice is restorative. (Sunday) A prophet is one who keeps… Continue Reading Prophets: Part Two: Weekly Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Alana Levandoski, Barmen, Compassion, contemplative action, critique, justice, Leslye Colvin, Nonviolence, practice, Prophets, resistance, song, Today

Western Christianity: Weekly Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on September 22, 2018

Western Christianity Summary: Sunday, September 16-Friday, September 21, 2018 To learn contemplative practice is to learn what we need so as to live truthfully and honestly and lovingly. It is a deeply revolutionary matter. —Archbishop Rowan Williams (Sunday) Meditation [was] not a newfangled innovation, let alone the grafting onto Christianity of an Eastern practice, but… Continue Reading Western Christianity: Weekly Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged African Americans, Barbara Holmes, Christianity, Community, Contemplation, practice, song, Western Church

Justice: Week 2 Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on June 23, 2018

Justice: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, June 17-Friday, June 22, 2018 Only by solidarity with other people’s suffering can comfortable people be converted. Otherwise we are disconnected from the cross—of the world, of others, of Jesus, and finally of our own necessary participation in the great mystery of dying and rising. (Sunday) The way of radical… Continue Reading Justice: Week 2 Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged dance, Eileen Shaughnessy, justice, Nani Chacon, New Mexico, practice, song

Justice: Week 1 Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on June 16, 2018

Justice: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, June 10-Friday, June 15, 2018 Jesus is a visible incarnation of the union between human and divine, matter and spirit. He models inclusive, nondual, compassionate thinking and being. (Sunday) We must work to dismantle systems of oppression while at the same time honoring our differences and celebrating our oneness! This… Continue Reading Justice: Week 1 Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged African Americans, Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative, healing, justice, practice, racism, reconciliation, restoration, Truth, violence

In Pursuit of Sexual Justice

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on April 20, 2018

Gender and Sexuality: Week 1 In Pursuit of Sexual Justice Friday, April 20, 2018 If you’re paying any attention to the news, no doubt you’ve noticed a dramatic shift over the past several decades in how our culture views human sexuality. As we’ve mentioned this week, gender and sexuality are fluid concepts, so it’s only… Continue Reading In Pursuit of Sexual Justice

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Diarmuid O'Murchu, Intimacy, James Finley, justice, Margaret Farley, Power, sexuality

Human Bodies: Week 1 Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on April 7, 2018

Human Bodies: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, April 1-Friday, April 6, 2018 I choose to believe in some kind of bodily resurrection because it localizes the Christ mystery in this material and earthly world and in our own bodies, the only world we know and the world that God created and loves. (Sunday) This Creator of… Continue Reading Human Bodies: Week 1 Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Barbara Holmes, Body, Christine Stevens, Community, drumming, focus, practice

Introduction: Image and Likeness: Weekly Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on January 6, 2018

Introduction: Image and Likeness Summary: Sunday, December 31, 2017-Friday, January 5, 2018 Epiphany The “image” described in Genesis refers to our eternal essence in God which cannot be increased or decreased. “Likeness” refers to our personal and unique embodiment of that inner divine image. It is our gradual realization of this gift. (Sunday) My goal in the… Continue Reading Introduction: Image and Likeness: Weekly Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged awareness, Contemplation, Presence

We Were Made by Love to Love

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on January 3, 2018

Introduction: Image and Likeness We Were Made by Love to Love Wednesday, January 3, 2018 God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness.” —Genesis 1:26 My dear people, we are already children of God; what we will be in the future has not yet been fully revealed, and all I… Continue Reading We Were Made by Love to Love

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Creation, image, likeness, Love, Trinity