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The Contemplative Call to Nature: Weekly Summary
The Contemplative Call to Nature Saturday, April 24, 2021 Week Sixteen Summary and Practice Sunday, April 18—Friday, April 23, 2021 Sunday The core message of the incarnation of God in Jesus is that the Divine Presence is here, in us and in all of creation, and not only “over there” in some far-off realm. Monday… Continue Reading The Contemplative Call to Nature: Weekly Summary
Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part One: Weekly Summary
Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part One Saturday, August 15, 2020 Summary: Sunday, August 9—August 14, 2020 To grow toward love, union, salvation, or enlightenment, we must be moved from Order to Disorder, and then ultimately to Reorder. (Sunday) Law, tradition, and boundaries—what I call Order—seem to be necessary in any spiritual system both to reveal and… Continue Reading Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part One: Weekly Summary
Alternative Community: Weekly Summary
Alternative Community Saturday, June 6, 2020 Summary: Sunday, May 31—Friday, June 5, 2020 People are gathering digitally and in person today through neighborhood associations, study groups, community gardens, social services, and volunteer groups. (Sunday) Without connectedness and communion, we don’t exist fully as our truest selves. Becoming who we really are is a matter of… Continue Reading Alternative Community: Weekly Summary
The Universal Pattern: Weekly Summary
The Universal Pattern Summary: Sunday, April 12 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Christianity can help us realize that death and resurrection are part of the evolutionary path toward wholeness; letting go of isolated existence for the sake of deeper union. –Ilia Delio (Sunday) It is largely after the fact that faith is formed—and gloriously transmuted… Continue Reading The Universal Pattern: Weekly Summary
Walk in Beauty
Primal and Indigenous Spirituality Walk in Beauty Friday, August 10, 2018 In 1969 when I was a young deacon in Acoma Pueblo, one of my jobs was to take the census. Because it was summer and hot, I would start early in the morning, driving my little orange truck to each residence. Invariably at sunrise,… Continue Reading Walk in Beauty
Vocation: Weekly Summary
Vocation Summary: Sunday, May 27-Friday, June 1, 2018 Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. —Parker Palmer (Sunday) As conscious human beings, our life purpose is to be a visible expression of both… Continue Reading Vocation: Weekly Summary
Gender and Sexuality: Week 1 Summary
Gender and Sexuality: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, April 15-Friday, April 20, 2018 We are clearly not very at home in our bodies, yet Jesus came to show us that we can and must trust our human, and thus body-based, experience. The material world is the privileged place for the divine encounter. (Sunday) The word sex… Continue Reading Gender and Sexuality: Week 1 Summary
The Natural World: Week 2 Summary
The Natural World: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, March 11-Friday, March 16, 2018 Creation is of the order of love. God’s love is the fundamental moving force in all created things. —Pope Francis (Sunday) Hildegard lived inside an entire cosmology, a universe where the inner shows itself in the outer, and the outer reflects the inner,… Continue Reading The Natural World: Week 2 Summary
Nature: Week 1 Summary
Nature: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, November 6-Friday, November 11, 2016 When you don’t recognize that the Christ Mystery is universal, that God is present in—and is saving—all of creation, you can choose what you respect and what you disrespect, what you love and what you hate. (Sunday) God is saving creation and bringing all creatures… Continue Reading Nature: Week 1 Summary
Participation: Week 2 Summary
Participation: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, April 10-Friday, April 15, 2016 God refuses to be known intellectually. God can only be loved and known in the act of love; God can only be experienced in communion. (Sunday) Jesus offered the world full and final participation in his own very holistic teaching. Jesus spoke of true union… Continue Reading Participation: Week 2 Summary