Journey

We are on a Journey

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Where are we going? After a very short visit to earth the time comes for each of us to pass from this world to the next. We have been sent into the world as God’s beloved children, and in our passages and our losses we learn to love each other as spouse, parent, brother, or sister. We support one another through the passages of life, and together we grow in love.

Finally, we ourselves are called to exodus, and we leave the world for full communion with God. It is possible for us, like Jesus, to send our spirit of love to our friends when we leave them. Our spirit, the love we leave behind, is deeply in God’s Spirit. It is our greatest gift to those we love.

We, like Jesus, are on a journey, living to make our lives abundantly fruitful through our leaving. When we leave, we will say the words that Jesus said: “It is good for you that I leave, because unless I pass away, I cannot send you my spirit to help you and inspire you.”

Full Liberation – Richard Rohr

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The term liberation theology has a negative connotation in the minds of some people. It sounds like something heretical, leftist, or Marxist, and certainly not biblical. In fact, it is at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition and marks its very beginning. It is amazing that much of Christianity has been able to avoid the obvious for so long.
We see the beginnings of liberation theology as early as twelve hundred years before Christ with the Exodus experience of the Jewish people. Something divine happened that allowed an enslaved group of Semitic people in Egypt to experience many levels of liberation. By grace, Moses and Aaron found the courage to confront the pharaoh to let the people go. The burning bush experience quickly became a momentous act of civil disobedience. The Exodus was both an inner journey and an outer journey and then the basic template and metaphor for the whole Bible. If the inner journey does not match and lead to an outer journey, we have no true liberation at all. Most groups choose just one side or the other; very few choose both. That is what liberation theology is honest enough to point out.


+Adapted from CAC Foundation Set: Gospel Call to Compassionate Action
(Bias from the Bottom) and Contemplative Prayer (Recording).

The “Holy Fool” – Father Richard Rohr

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The “holy fool” is the final stage of the full human journey. Maybe this is what Jesus meant when he said, “It is those who become like little children who will enter the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 18:3). Jesus, in his frequent allusion to children, was in his own way describing this final stage of life. We return to that early childhood, as it were, running naked and exposed into the great room of life and death. “I am who I am who I am” now. God has accepted me in my most naked being, and I can now give it all back to God exactly as it is with conscious loving trust that it will be received. What else would God want?

Adapted from The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of Saint Francis

Father Richard Rohr