Posts tagged ‘richard rohr’
Seeing God in All Things
Either we acknowledge that God is in all things, or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything.
– Richard Rohr
God in All Things
Either we acknowledge that God is in all things, or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything.
– Richard Rohr
Sitting in Silence
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise.– Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, Radical Grace: Daily Meditations
Waiting
Resurrection and Touching the Mystery of Life
Let us shine the light on what we fear – and find Resurrection where we least expect it
There is a certain fear of death that comes from not having lived yet. I had to face it myself when I had cancer a few years ago. I don’t think I was afraid of death at that time, but I also knew I had already lived. Once you know you have touched upon this mystery of life, you are not afraid of death. There is an existential terror about losing what you’ve never found. Something in me says, “I haven’t done ‘it’ yet.” I haven’t experienced the stream of life yet. I haven’t touched the real, the good, the true, and the beautiful—which is, of course, what we were created for.
– Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy (on the 4th Day of Christmas)
On the Fourth Day of Christmas
Christmas is a celebration of Joy/Emmanuel/God with Us. Joy living among us. And so, as on all the days of Christmas, we celebrate the Coming of Joy into our lives.
It is good and joyful to live on this earth!
Henceforth humanity has the right to know that it is good to be human, good to live on this earth, good to have a body, because God in Jesus chose and said “yes” to our humanity. Or as we Franciscans love to say, “incarnation is already Redemption.” The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days. Not only is it “Always Advent,” but every day can now be Christmas because the one we thought we were just waiting for has come once and for all.
– Richrd Rohr, OFM, from Preparing for Christmas
The Season of Advent Begins
“Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus”
—Richard Rohr
While the stores are all decked out in their Christmas attire, our churches are holding out and putting out blue or purple and an Advent wreath. And just what is Advent? I like how Richard Rohr, OFM, puts it in his book, Preparing for Christmas.
“[I try] to invite people beyond a merely understanding of Christmas as “waiting for the baby Jesus” to an adult and social appreciation of the message of the Incarnation of God in Christ. We Franciscans have always believed that the Incarnation was already the Redemption, because in Jesus’ birth God was already saying that it was good to be human, and God was on our side.”
What is Prayer?
According to Richard Rohr,
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise.
– From Radical Grace: Daily Meditations
In other words, we become what we do.
How, then, shall we live?
