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Awe, Wonder, and Love

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on August 13, 2020

Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part One Awe, Wonder, and Love Thursday, August 13, 2020 A sense of wonder and awe is the foundation of religion. Too often we associate religion with belonging to a church or professing certain beliefs, but the religious instinct is so much broader than that. Sikh activist and human rights lawyer Valarie… Continue Reading Awe, Wonder, and Love

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged connection, Love, Order, religion, Valarie Kaur

Cosmology and Nature: Weekly Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on June 27, 2020

Cosmology and Nature Saturday, June 27, 2020 Summary: Sunday, June 21—Friday, June 26, 2020 I hope this week’s meditations offer you a vision of a cosmology that is scientifically accurate and still entirely suffused with the presence of God. (Sunday) In Jesus, I hope for more than just a God with a face or a… Continue Reading Cosmology and Nature: Weekly Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Barbara Holmes, cosmology, miracles, practice, universe, Walter Truett Anderson

Awakening in the Cosmos

Written by Barbara Holmes on June 24, 2020

Cosmology and Nature Awakening in the Cosmos Wednesday, June 24, 2020 My friend and fellow CAC teacher Dr. Barbara Holmes has the ability to bear witness to the expansiveness of the cosmos, the major systemic shifts taking place in society, and the small and sacred moments of daily life—all at the same time. Her writing… Continue Reading Awakening in the Cosmos

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged awareness, Barbara Holmes, Community, cosmology

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, video

Opening the Doors of My Being

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on July 22, 2019

Mystic: Howard Thurman Opening the Doors of My Being Monday, July 22, 2019 This week we’re reflecting on the writings of Howard Thurman. (See Sunday’s meditation for my introduction.) Today Thurman explores how prayer is not a transaction, nor is it about changing God. It’s about opening our hearts, minds, and bodies to be receptive… Continue Reading Opening the Doors of My Being

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Experience, God, Howard Thurman, mysticism, mystics, Presence

Wonder

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on April 5, 2019

Dying Before You Die Wonder Friday, April 5, 2019 Death—whether one of many deaths to the false self or our final physical dying—is simply returning to our spacious Ground of Being, to our foundation in Love. Life doesn’t truly end; it simply changes form and continues evolving into ever new shapes and beauty. In addition… Continue Reading Wonder

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged death, Love, Shelley Chapin Drake, surrender, trust

The First Bible

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on February 20, 2019

Christ Since the Beginning The First Bible Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Sacred writings are bound in two volumes—that of creation and that of Holy Scripture. —Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274) [1] Ever since God created the world, God’s everlasting power and deity—however invisible—have been there for the mind to see in the things God has made. —Romans… Continue Reading The First Bible

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Christ, Creation, God, Goodness, Ilia Delio, nature

Parts of a Whole

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

Hinduism Parts of a Whole Thursday, August 16, 2018 Several central ideas affirmed by Jesus were already formed in the ancient Hindu Vedas, then unfolded by the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. Three of these ideas are advaita, karma, and maya. The word advaita is loosely translated as “having no duality,” implying that the proper or spiritual way of understanding things… Continue Reading Parts of a Whole

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged advaita, connection, Hinduism, Jesus, karma, maya, Mirabai Starr, understanding, Unity, wisdom

Perplexed into Contemplation

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

Art: Week 1 Perplexed into Contemplation Wednesday, May 16, 2018 The imagination offers revelation. It never blasts us with information or numbs us with description. . . . We find ourselves engaged in its questions and possibilities, and new revelation dawns. . . . The imaginative form of knowing is graced with gradualness. . .… Continue Reading Perplexed into Contemplation

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged art, Barbara Holmes, Contemplation, God, imagination, Ronald Rolheiser

Thisness: Weekly Summary

Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM on March 24, 2018

Thisness Summary: Sunday, March 18-Friday, March 23, 2018 Each creature is not merely one member of a genus and species, but a unique aspect of the infinite Mystery of God. God is continuously choosing each created thing specifically to exist, moment by moment. (Sunday) Without truly seeing and valuing individual lives, war and violence become… Continue Reading Thisness: Weekly Summary

Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Contemplation, practice, relationship, surrender, thisness

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