La Resurrección un Aspecto de la Encarnación

Hoy comenzando mi rutina diaria, leo la corta meditación del día, y noto que toca el tema que estoy estudiando en estas últimas semanas con gran sencillez y `claridad: la resurrección como un aspecto inherente a la encarnación.

El padre Richard escribe:

Todos queremos la resurrección de alguna forma. La resurrección de Jesús es una declaración potente, enfocada y convincente sobre lo que Dios está haciendo todavía y para siempre con el universo y la humanidad. La ciencia confirma firmemente esta afirmación utilizando sus propios términos: metamorfosis, condensación, evaporación, cambios estacionales y los ciclos de vida de todo, desde mariposas hasta estrellas. El mundo natural muere y renace constantemente en diferentes formas. Dios parece estar resucitando todo, todo el tiempo y en todas partes. No es algo en lo que “creer” sino algo en lo que observar y aprender.

Elijo creer en la resurrección corporal de Jesús porque localiza todo el Misterio en este mundo material y terrenal y también en nuestros propios cuerpos, el único mundo que conocemos y el mundo que Dios creó y ama y en el que Dios eligió encarnar. (Lea todo 1 Corintios 15, donde Pablo sigue diciendo esto de muchas maneras). [1]

La teóloga Elizabeth Johnson considera la naturaleza encarnada de la resurrección de Jesús:

Dado el dualismo [con respecto al cuerpo y el espíritu] que persiste en el pensamiento cristiano, es importante enfatizar que [la resurrección] no es simplemente un caso de inmortalidad del alma. Jesús no se despoja de su cuerpo como un traje y se eleva hacia el cielo, por así decirlo, como un ser puramente espiritual. La resurrección afirma la vida nueva de Jesús, toda la persona encarnada, transfigurada más allá de la muerte. De una manera profundamente material, las apariciones pascuales revelan la dimensión divina de profundidad que sustenta toda carne, lo que abre nuevas posibilidades para el cuerpo mismo…

La resurrección comienza en la tierra con Jesús muerto y sepultado, y termina en Dios con Jesús el Viviente transformado por el poder del Espíritu. Vive en Dios, por lo tanto, su presencia ya no está limitada por los límites de la tierra sino que participa de la omnipresencia del propio amor de Dios. Cristo está ahora presente en palabra y sacramento y dondequiera que dos o tres se reúnan en su nombre. Fiel al modelo de su ministerio, él también se acerca, misteriosamente revelado y oculto, a los hambrientos, a los sedientos, a los enfermos, a los sin hogar, a los encarcelados, a los más pequeños entre los necesitados. En última instancia, a través del poder del Espíritu, Jesús está con toda la comunidad de discípulos, de hecho con toda la comunidad de la creación, a través de cada hora, hasta el fin de los tiempos. ¿Es esto cierto? Dejando a un lado todas las explicaciones, tiene que ser una verdad vivida, vista en las vidas de aquellos que participan en la obra continua de Cristo en el mundo. [2]

El padre Richard concluye:

Si la encarnación divina original fue y es verdadera, entonces la resurrección es inevitable e irreversible. Si el Big Bang fue el punto de partida externo del Misterio Crístico eterno, entonces sabemos que este logos eterno está conduciendo a la creación a algún lugar bueno, y que el universo no es caótico ni carece de sentido. Alfa y Omega son, de hecho, lo mismo. [3]

[1] Adaptado de Richard Rohr, Diamante inmortal: la búsqueda de nuestro verdadero yo (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013), 86–87.

[2] Elizabeth A. Johnson, La creación y la cruz: la misericordia de Dios para un planeta en peligro (Maryknoll, Nueva York: Orbis Books, 2018), 102–103.

[3] Rohr, Diamante Inmortal, 88.

Aprender A Amar Lo Que Está Frente A Nosotros

Alaben al Señor desde la tierra
    los grandes animales marinos y las profundidades del mar,
el rayo y el granizo, la nieve y la neblina,
    el viento tempestuoso que obedece su palabra,
los montes y todas las colinas,
    los árboles frutales y todos los cedros,
10 los animales salvajes y los domésticos,
    los reptiles y las aves,

Salmos 148:7-10

Dios era conocido y alabado en el mundo natural mucho antes del advenimiento de las Escrituras.

Las tradiciones judía y cristiana de la espiritualidad de la creación tienen su origen en las Escrituras hebreas, como los Salmos 104 y 148. Es una espiritualidad que tiene sus raíces, ante todo, en la naturaleza, la experiencia y el mundo tal como es. Esta rica espiritualidad hebrea formó la mente, el corazón y las enseñanzas de Jesús de Nazaret.

Quizás no sintamos el impacto de eso hasta que nos demos cuenta de cuánta gente piensa que la religión tiene que ver con ideas, conceptos y fórmulas de los libros. Así se formó durante años al clero y a los teólogos. Se fueron no a un mundo de la naturaleza, el silencio y las relaciones primarias, sino a un mundo de libros. Bueno, eso no es espiritualidad bíblica y no es ahí donde comienza la religión. Comienza observando “lo que es”. Pablo dice: “Desde la creación del mundo, la esencia invisible de Dios y el poder eterno de Dios se pueden ver claramente mediante la comprensión de la mente de las cosas creadas” (Romanos 1:20). Conocemos a Dios a través de las cosas que Dios ha hecho. El primer fundamento de cualquier verdadera visión religiosa es, sencillamente, aprender a ver y amar lo que es. ¡La contemplación es enfrentar la realidad en su forma más simple y directa, sin juzgar, sin explicar y sin control!

Si no sabemos amar lo que está frente a nosotros, entonces no sabemos cómo ver lo que hay. Entonces, ¡debemos comenzar con una piedra! Pasamos del mundo de la piedra al mundo de las plantas y aprendemos a apreciar las cosas en crecimiento y a ver a Dios en ellas. En todo el mundo natural, vemos los vestigios de Dios, que significa las huellas dactilares o huellas de Dios.

Quizás una vez que podamos ver a Dios en las plantas y los animales, podamos aprender a ver a Dios en nuestros vecinos. Y entonces podríamos aprender a amar el mundo. Y luego, cuando todo ese amor haya ocurrido, cuando todo ese ver haya sucedido, entonces seremos capaces de amar a Jesús. El alma está preparada. El alma se libera y aprende a ver, a recibir, a entrar y a salir de sí misma. Estas personas bien podrían entender cómo amar a Dios.

Adaptado del material de Richard Rohr, “Christianity and the Creation: A Franciscan Speaks to Franciscans,” in Embracing Earth: Catholic Approaches to Ecology, ed. Albert J. LaChance and John E. Carroll (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994), 130–131.

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El Arte Del Desprendimiento Del Ego

Necesitamos formas de oración que nos liberen de fijarnos en nuestros propios pensamientos y sentimientos conscientes y de identificarnos con ellos, como si nosotros fuéramos nuestro pensamiento. ¿Quiénes somos antes de tener nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos?

Si estamos llenos de nosotros mismos, no hay lugar para otro, y ciertamente no para Dios. Necesitamos una oración contemplativa, en la que simplemente dejemos ir nuestras necesidades de ego en constante cambio, para que Algo Eterno pueda hacerse cargo.

Esto no es simple. Debido a que hemos perdido el arte del desprendimiento, nos hemos identificado casi por completo con nuestro flujo de conciencia y nuestros sentimientos.

No estoy diciendo que debamos reprimir o negar nuestros sentimientos. No estoy desafiando a nombrarlos y observarlos, pero no a luchar directamente contra ellos, identificarnos con ellos o unirnos a ellos.

Podríamos preguntar: “¿Qué tiene que ver esto con Dios? Pensé que se suponía que la oración era hablar con Dios o buscar a Dios. Esto parece estar diciendo que “la oración se trata de quitarme del medio”. Eso es exactamente lo que estoy diciendo.

Para cualquiera como nosotros el desprendimiento suena como perder, pero en realidad se trata de acceder a un sentido más profundo y amplio del yo, que ya está completo, ya contento, ya lleno de vida abundante.

Esta es la parte de nosotros que siempre ha amado a Dios y siempre ha dicho “sí” a Dios. Es la parte de nosotros la que es amor, y todo lo que tenemos que hacer es dejarlo ir y caer en él.

Una vez que trasladamos nuestra identidad a ese nivel de profunda satisfacción interior y compasión, nos damos cuenta de que estamos recurriendo a una vida que es más grande que la nuestra y de una abundancia más profunda.

Dios ya está presente. El Espíritu de Dios mora dentro de nosotros. No podemos buscar lo que ya tenemos. No podemos convencer a Dios de que venga “a” nosotros con oraciones más largas y urgentes. Todo lo que podemos hacer es volvernos más tranquilos, más pequeños y menos llenos de nuestro propio yo y de nuestra constante ráfaga de ideas y sentimientos. Entonces Dios será obvio en el presente de las cosas, y en la simplicidad de las cosas. En resumen, nunca podemos llegar allí, solo podemos estar allí. 

Adaptado de: Richard Rohr.  A Spring within Us: A Book of Daily Meditations (Albuquerque, NM: CAC Publishing, 2016), 230-231.

The Mind of Christ

This week I have being presented with the concept of the apostle Paul as one of the most misunderstood teacher, and mystic. Having the sample of Paul, I encounter a direct message that talked to my heart at this moment in which I am interested in the process of how the non-dual mind mind is formed by prayer and embodiment practices. A beautiful summary has been presented during this week and I would like to have it near to remind me that all human being have access to the Divine Flow , that is always happening and everyone can plug in.

The Mind of Christ – Practice

We encourage you to create some space this week for intentional silence and stillness, using Father Richard’s description of contemplation and “the mind of Christ” as an entry into prayer:

In contemplative practice, we refuse to identify with any one side, while still maintaining our intelligence. We hold the creative tension of every seeming conflict and go beyond words to pure, open-ended experience, which has the potential to unify many seeming contradictions. We cannot know God the way we know anything else; we only know God subject to subject, by a process of mirroring. This is the “mind of Christ” (see 1 Corinthians 2:16). It really is a different way of knowing, and you can tell it by its gratuity, its open-endedness, its compassion, and by the way it is so creative and energizing in those who allow it.

Truly great thinkers and cultural creatives take for granted that they have access to a different and larger mind. They recognize that a Divine Flow is already happening and that everyone can plug into it. In all cases, it is a participative kind of knowing, a being known through and not an autonomous knowing. The most common and traditional word for this change of consciousness was historically “prayer,” but we trivialized that precious word by making it functional, transactional, and supposedly about problem solving. The only problem that prayer solves is us!

Material from Daily Meditations_Center of Action and Contemplation Week Mark 20 – March 25 2022

Learning to Letting Go with Centering Prayer

Learning to Let Go

Centering Prayer is a devotional practice, placing ourselves in God’s presence and quieting our minds and hearts, but as Cynthia Bourgeault explains, it doesn’t only work on that level. What the desert abbas and ammas, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing, and even Thomas Keating could not have known when he formally started teaching the practice five decades ago, was that it works on a physiological level as well, strengthening neural pathways, and making “letting go” that much easier. When it comes to releasing our strong preferences, especially our desire for power and control, it seems safe to say that some practice of kenosis is necessary for any movement forward. 

The theological basis for Centering Prayer lies in the principle of kenosis, Jesus’s self-emptying love that forms the core of his own self-understanding and life practice. . . .

The gospels themselves make clear that [Jesus] is specifically inviting us to this journey and modeling how to do it. Once you see this, it’s the touchstone throughout all his teaching: Let go! Don’t cling! Don’t hoard! Don’t assert your importance! Don’t fret. “Do not be afraid, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom!” (Luke 12:32). And it’s this same core gesture we practice in Centering Prayer: thought by thought by thought. You could really summarize Centering Prayer as kenosis in meditation form. . . .

Fascinating confirmation that kenosis is indeed an evolutionary human pathway is emerging from—of all places—recent discoveries in neuroscience. From fMRI data collected primarily by the California-based HeartMath Institute, you can now verify chapter and verse that how you respond to a stimulus in the outer world determines which neural pathways will be activated in your brain, and between your brain and your heart. If you respond with any form of initial negativity (which translates physiologically as constriction)—freezing, bracing, clinging, clenching, and so on—the pathway illumined leads to your amygdala (or “reptilian brain,” as it’s familiarly known) . . . which controls a repertory of highly energized fight-or-flight responses. If you can relax into a stimulus—opening, softening, yielding, releasing—the neural pathway leads through the more evolutionarily advanced parts of your forebrain and, surprisingly, brings brain and heart rhythms into entrainment. . . .

Every time we manage to let go of a thought in Centering Prayer, “consenting to the presence and action of God within,” the gesture is actually physically embodied. It’s not just an attitude; something actually “drops and releases” in the solar plexus region of your body, a subtle but distinct form of interior relaxation. . . . And in time, this gentle and persistent “inner aerobics,” undertaken under the specific banner of Centering Prayer and in solidarity with Jesus’s own kenotic path, will gradually establish that “mind of Christ” within you as your own authentic self.

We invite you to spend some time today practicing “letting go” through Centering Prayer or another practice of kenosis.

Cynthia Bourgeault, The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice (Shambhala: 2016), 33, 34, 35–36.

Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation.

Good and Bad Power

August 8 – August 13, 2021

Mystical Hope

Mystical Hope   
Thursday,  April 16, 2020

Hope is the main impulse of life. —Ilia Delio, OSF [1]

Because we are so quickly led to despair, most of us cannot endure suffering for long without some sliver of hope or meaning. However, it is worth asking ourselves about where our hope lies. My friend and colleague Cynthia Bourgeault makes a powerful distinction between what she calls ordinary hope, “tied to outcome . . . . an optimistic feeling . . . because we sense that things will get better in the future” and mystical hope “that is a complete reversal of our usual way of looking at things. Beneath the ‘upbeat’ kind of hope that parts the seas and pulls rabbits out of hats, this other hope weaves its way as a quiet, even ironic counterpoint.” She writes,

We might make the following observations about this other kind of hope, which we will call mystical hope. In contrast to our usual notions of hope:

  1. Mystical hope is not tied to a good outcome, to the future. It lives a life of its own, seemingly without reference to external circumstances and conditions.
  2. It has something to do with presence—not a future good outcome, but the immediate experience of being met, held in communion, by something intimately at hand.
  3. It bears fruit within us at the psychological level in the sensations of strength, joy, and satisfaction: an “unbearable lightness of being.” But mysteriously, rather than deriving these gifts from outward expectations being met, it seems to produce them from within. . .

[It] is all too easy to understate and miss that hope is not intended to be an extraordinary infusion, but an abiding state of being. We lose sight of the invitation—and in fact, our responsibility, as stewards of creation—to develop a conscious and permanent connection to this wellspring. We miss the call to become a vessel, to become a chalice into which this divine energy can pour; a lamp through which it can shine. . . .

We ourselves are not the source of that hope; we do not manufacture it. But the source dwells deeply within us and flows to us with an unstinting abundance, so much so that in fact it might be more accurate to say we dwell within it. . . .

The good news is that this deeper current does exist and you actually can find it. . . . For me the journey to the source of hope is ultimately a theologicaljourney: up and over the mountain to the sources of hope in the headwaters of the Christian Mystery. This journey to the wellsprings of hope is not something that will change your life in the short range, in the externals. Rather, it is something that will change your innermost way of seeing. From there, inevitably, the externals will rearrange. . . . 

The journey to the wellsprings of hope is really a journey toward the center, toward the innermost ground of our being where we meet and are met by God.
[1] Delio, Ilia, “Hope in a Time of Crisis,” The Omega Center, March 9, 2020, www.omegacenter.info/hope-in-a-time-of-crisis/ 

Adapted from Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystical Hope: Trusting in the Mercy of God (Cowley Publications: 2001), 3, 5, 9-10, 17, 20, 42. 
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Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation

From the Center for Action and Contemplation

Incarnation

Incarnation

Celebrating an Eternal Advent
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

In the first 1200 years of Christianity, the greatest feast was Easter with the high holy days of Holy Week leading up to the celebration of the resurrection of Christ. But in the 13th century, a new person entered the scene: Francis of Assisi felt we didn’t need to wait for God to love us through the cross and resurrection. Francis intuited that the whole thing started with incarnate love, and he popularized what we now take for granted as Christmas, which for many became the greater Christian feast. The Franciscans popularized Christmas. Maybe their intuition was correct.

Francis realized that if God had become flesh—taken on materiality, physicality, humanity—then we didn’t have to wait for Good Friday and Easter to “solve the problem” of human sin; the problem was solved from the beginning. It makes sense that Christmas became the great celebratory feast of Christians because it basically says that it’s good to be human, it’s good to be on this earth, it’s good to be flesh, it’s good to have emotions. We don’t need to be ashamed of any of this. God loves matter and physicality.

With that insight, it’s no wonder Francis went wild over Christmas! (I do, too: my little house is filled with candles at Christmastime.) Francis believed that every tree should be decorated with lights to show their true status as God’s creations! And that’s exactly what we still do 800 years later.

Remember, when we speak of Advent or preparing for Christmas, we’re not just talking about waiting for the little baby Jesus to be born. That already happened 2,000 years ago. In fact, we’re welcoming the Universal Christ, the Cosmic Christ, the Christ that is forever being born in the human soul and into history.

And believe me, we do have to make room, because right now there is no room in the inn for such a mystery. We see things pretty much in their materiality, but we don’t see the light shining through. We don’t see the incarnate spirit that is hidden inside of everything material.

The early Eastern Church, which too few people in the United States and Western Europe are familiar with, made it very clear that the incarnation was a universal principle. Incarnation meant not just that God became Jesus; God said yes to the material universe. God said yes to physicality. Eastern Christianity understands the mystery of incarnation in the universal sense. So it is always Advent. God is forever coming into the world (see John 1:9).

We’re always waiting to see spirit revealing itself through matter. We’re always waiting for matter to become a new form in which spirit is revealed. Whenever that happens, we’re celebrating Christmas. The gifts of incarnation just keep coming. Perhaps this is enlightenment.

Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation

Adapted from “An Advent Meditation with Richard Rohr” (Center for Action and Contemplation: 2017), https://vimeo.com/246331333.

Art and the Power to Transcend

I received a contemplating practice today, Contemplating Art, and I was totally immersed on the experience that I had.

Some of the great modern philosophers, Schelling to Schiller to Schopenhauer, have all pinpointed a major reason for great art’s power to transcend. When we look at any beautiful object (natural or artistic), we suspend all other activity, and we are simply aware, we only want to contemplate the object. While we are in this contemplative state, we do not want anything from the object; we just want to contemplate it; we want it to never end. We don’t want to eat it, or own it, or run from it, or alter it: we only want to look, we want to contemplate, we never want it to end.

In that contemplative awareness, our own egoic grasping in time comes momentarily to rest. We relax into our basic awareness. We rest with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. We are face to face with the calm, the eye in the center of the storm. We are not agitating to change things; we contemplate the object as it is. Great art has this power, this power to grab your attention and suspend it: we stare, sometimes awestruck, sometimes silent, but we cease the restless movement that otherwise characterizes our every waking moment. . . .

Think of the most beautiful person you have ever seen. Think of the exact moment you looked into his or her eyes, and for a fleeting second you were paralyzed: you couldn’t take your eyes off that vision. You stared, frozen in time, caught in that beauty. Now imagine that identical beauty radiating from every single thing in the entire universe: every rock, every plant, every animal, every cloud, every person, every object, every mountain, every stream—even the garbage dumps and broken dreams—every single one of them, radiating that beauty. You are quietly frozen by the gentle beauty of everything that arises around you. You are released from grasping, released from time, released from avoidance, released altogether into the eye of Spirit, where you contemplate the unending beauty of the Art that is the entire World.

That all-pervading Beauty is not an exercise in creative imagination. It is the actual structure of the universe. That all-pervading Beauty is in truth the very nature of the Kosmos right now. . . . If you remain in the eye of the Spirit, every object is an object of radiant Beauty. If the doors of perception are cleansed, the entire Kosmos is your lost and found Beloved, the Original Face of primordial Beauty, forever, and forever, and endlessly forever. And in the face of that stunning Beauty, you will completely swoon into your own death, never to be seen or heard from again, except on those tender nights when the wind gently blows through the hills and the mountains, quietly calling your name. [1]

[1] Ken Wilber, The Eye of Spirit: Integral Art and Literary Theory (Shambhala: 1997), 44.

Unity and Diversity

Unity and Diversity

June 2 – June 7, 2019

Unitive consciousness—the awareness that we are all one in Love—lays a solid foundation for social critique and acts of justice. (Sunday)

In the Trinity, the three must be maintained as three and understood as different from one another. Yet the infinite trust and flow between them is so constant, so reliable, so true, and so faithful that they are also completely one. (Monday)

Gravity, atomic bonding, orbits, cycles, photosynthesis, ecosystems, force fields, electromagnetic fields, sexuality, human friendship, animal instinct, and evolution all reveal an energy that is attracting all things and beings to one another, in a movement toward ever greater complexity and diversity—and yet ironically also toward unification at ever deeper levels. (Tuesday)

People can meet God within their cultural context but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that’s what Jesus did in the incarnation itself. —Christena Cleveland (Wednesday)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s observation that eleven o’clock on Sunday mornings is the most segregated hour in America still stands to challenge each congregation to examine the difference in its midst and to develop a higher capacity and moral compass to embrace it and to celebrate it. —Jaqueline Lewis (Thursday)

Nothing exists without these three interdependent energies that emerged from the first flaring forth over 13.8 billion years ago: differentiation or diversity; subjectivity, interiority, or essence; and communion or community and interconnectedness. —Joan Brown (Friday)

Practice: You Belong

At the Center’s spring conference, The Universal Christ, we read the following call and response with 2,000 people gathered in Albuquerque and thousands more online. Later we heard from so many people that this litany of welcome was powerfully moving. Read it aloud to yourself and feel truly welcomed—all of you, even the parts that culture or church have denied. Are there pieces of you not named here that you would like to recognize? Consider sharing your own welcome statement with your faith community and invite others to collaborate in making this vision more complete and actualized.

We would like to let you know that you belong. . . .

People on all parts of the continuum of gender identity and expression, including those who are gay, bisexual, heterosexual, transgender, cisgender, queer folks, the sexually active, the celibate, and everyone for whom those labels don’t apply. We say, “You belong.”

People of African descent, of Asian descent, of European descent, of First Nations descent in this land and abroad, and people of mixed and multiple descents and of all the languages spoken here. We say, “You belong.”

Bodies with all abilities and challenges. Those living with any chronic medical condition, visible or invisible, mental or physical. We say, “You belong.”

People who identify as activists and those who don’t. Mystics, believers, seekers of all kinds. People of all ages. Those who support you to be here. We say, “You belong.”

Your emotions: joy, fear, grief, contentment, disappointment, surprise, and all else that flows through you. We say, “You belong.”

Your families, genetic and otherwise. Those dear to us who have died. Our ancestors and the future ones. The ancestors who lived in this land, in this place, where these buildings are now . . . we honor you through this work that we are undertaking. We say, “You belong.”

People who feel broken, lost, struggling; who suffer from self-doubt and self-judgment. We say, “You belong.”

All beings that inhabit this earth, human or otherwise: the two-legged, the four-legged, winged and finned, those that walk, fly, and crawl, above the ground and below, in air and water. We say, “You belong.”

Adapted from “Diversity Welcome,” Training for Change, https://www.trainingforchange.org/training_tools/diversity-welcome/.

Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation

From the Center for Action and Contemplation

Summary: Week Twenty-three

Unity and Diversity

June 2 – June 7, 2019

The Universal Christ: Contemplative Retreat June 15, 2019

Nancy Moran and I have been working together to lead this retreat. Our intention is to bring the message of the Universal Christ in a contemplative environment. We really give thanks to Contemplative Outreach Northeast Ohio for allow us to plan this retreat, to the Center of Action and Contemplation for the use of the videos from the latest conference on March 28-31, 2019 and to Laurel Lakes retirement Community for allow us use this place and for all help provided to make this event free of charge for our community.

The Universal Christ: Another Name for Every Thing
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Contemplative Retreat

What if Christ is a name for the transcendent within of every “thing” in the universe?
What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true Love?
What if Christ refers to an infinite horizon that pulls us both from within and pulls us forward, too?
What if Christ is another name for every thing—in its fullness?
—Richard Rohr
Christ is more than Jesus’ last name. Jesus is a person whose example we can follow. Christ is a cosmic life principle in which all beings participate. The incarnation is an ongoing revelation of Christ, uniting matter and spirit, operating as one and everywhere. Together—Jesus and Christ—show us “the way, the truth, and the life” of death and resurrection.
On June 15, join Contemplative Outreach Northeast Ohio for Centering Prayer, contemplative teachings and practices, and reflection with 3 videos featuring Richard Rohr during the March 28 – 31, 2019 Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Registration required for lunch planning. NO FEE. Free will offering will be accepted. Date and Time Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (8:30 am to 9:00 am Registration. Please arrive early so we can start promptly at 9:00 am) Location and Directions Laurel Lake Retirement Community  200 Laurel Lake Dr. Hudson, OH 44236 Contact Information To RSVP for this event, please contact Nancy Moran at email nancymoran94@gmail.com, no later than June 12. For further information: contact Josefina Fernandez at email fucsina@mac.com Retreat leaders Nancy Moran and Josefina Fernandez
More Information Click here for more information about the schedule on the website of Contemplative Outreach Northeast Ohio.