Laudato Si, Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical on the environment, was released ten years ago. His powerful teaching concerning our responsibility to care for all of creation highlights several themes. We are called to renew our relationship with God, one another and the created world. God created the world and ...
Fr. Richard Rohr elaborates on St. Paul’s instruction for praying contemplatively:
Paul says that you should “Pray with gratitude, and the peace of God which is beyond all knowledge, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7). First, you must begin with the positive, with...
A May 16 report by Consumer Reports describing the prevalence of PFAs in our environment reveals their presence in non-stick cookware, water-resistant clothing, food packaging and cosmetics. This category includes over 14000 chemicals that persist...
One of the creative tensions that the contemplative practitioner faces continually is the tension between means and end. On the one hand, contemplative practices, which count among their ranks participation in the Eucharist, are a manifestation and actualization of our relationship with Divine Love, expressions of the communion that simply is. On the other hand, every contemplative practice can just as rightly be ...
No doubt many of us have received communications in the last several days addressing the harmful measures included in the “big, beautiful bill” moving through Congress now. The Ignatian Solidarity Network and USCCB Justice for Immigrants have written...
Contemplative author Carl McColman reflects:
How do we pray to the God who is Love/Lover/Beloved?
To answer this question, I’d like to propose three ways of thinking about — and encountering — God, right here in our own bodies. These three ways of encountering God correspond to the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity. Remember,...
All contemplative practice hinges and capitalizes on the revelation of the indwelling Spirit of God. The typical dualistic, rational mind can recognize God in some sense, but always as an “Other,” in the heavens, in the cathedral, in the Scripture – and God is truly to be found there by those seeking with open hearts. But,