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“Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born!”—Richard Rohr buff.ly/EYiP7cv
Tune in for free Advent Sit Meditations, streamed on YouTube on Sundays. Join us on December 14th and December 21st at 8:30 am PT.
Tune in for free Advent Sit Meditations, streamed on YouTube on Sundays. Join us on December 14th and December 21st at 8:30 am PT.
December 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born!”—Richard Rohr buff.ly/EYiP7cv
Tune in for free Advent Sit Meditations, streamed on YouTube on Sundays. Join us on December 14th and December 21st at 8:30 am PT.
Tune in for free Advent Sit Meditations, streamed on YouTube on Sundays. Join us on December 14th and December 21st at 8:30 am PT.
Jonathon Stalls, a Living School student and founder of walk2connect, writes about learning how “we share a common journey of wanting to love and be loved; that we want to feel safe, comfortable, and connected; that we want to belong—somewhere. . . . cac.org/daily-medita...
Everything Belongs: Week 1 Summary
Everything Belong: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, November 27-Friday, December 2, 2016 To develop a healthy ego, we must differentiate and individuate; we must
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December 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Jonathon Stalls, a Living School student and founder of walk2connect, writes about learning how “we share a common journey of wanting to love and be loved; that we want to feel safe, comfortable, and connected; that we want to belong—somewhere. . . . cac.org/daily-medita...
Spirituality is about seeing—seeing things in their wholeness, which can only be done through the lens of our own wholeness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Contemplative Seeing
Everything Belongs: Week 1 Contemplative Seeing Friday, December 2, 2016 Spirituality is about seeing—seeing things in their wholeness, which can only be
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December 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Spirituality is about seeing—seeing things in their wholeness, which can only be done through the lens of our own wholeness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
As we grow in wisdom, we realize that everything belongs and everything can be received. We see that life and death are not opposites. They do not cancel one another out; neither do goodness and badness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Growing into Belonging and Away from the Illusion of Separation
Everything Belongs: Week 1 Growing into Belonging Thursday, December 1, 2016 As we grow spiritually, we discover that we are not as separate as we thought
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December 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As we grow in wisdom, we realize that everything belongs and everything can be received. We see that life and death are not opposites. They do not cancel one another out; neither do goodness and badness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, and much more than we think we are. Only when we live and see through God’s eyes can “everything belong.” #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
You Belong
Everything Belongs: Week 1 You Belong Wednesday, November 30, 2016 I believe that we have no real access to who we fully are except in God. Only when we
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December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, and much more than we think we are. Only when we live and see through God’s eyes can “everything belong.” #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
God is also another word for everything. God created everything and is in sympathetic union with everything God created. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
God Must Belong Too
Everything Belongs: Week 1 God Must Belong Too Tuesday, November 29, 2016 All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or
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December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
God is also another word for everything. God created everything and is in sympathetic union with everything God created. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The mind of Christ can live with paradox, uncertainty, and mystery. This way of not knowing, and not even needing to know, is precisely what we mean by Biblical faith. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Mature Spirituality and Making Meaning
Everything Belongs: Week 1 Mature Spirituality Monday, November 28, 2016 As I shared yesterday, Ken Wilber sees religion as having two primary functions.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The mind of Christ can live with paradox, uncertainty, and mystery. This way of not knowing, and not even needing to know, is precisely what we mean by Biblical faith. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Unfortunately, many people never move beyond the need for more infilling and never get to the outpouring which should be the natural result of a healthy ego. Basically, they never get to love. cac.org/daily-medita...
What Keeps Everything from Belonging?
Everything Belongs: Week 1 What Keeps Everything from Belonging? Sunday, November 27, 2016 As we’ve explored over the last several weeks—through
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December 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Unfortunately, many people never move beyond the need for more infilling and never get to the outpouring which should be the natural result of a healthy ego. Basically, they never get to love. cac.org/daily-medita...
This Hindu blessing, from the Bhagavad Gita, is said before meals: This ritual is One. The food is One. We who offer the food are One. The fire of hunger is also One. All action is One. We who understand this are One. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Perennial Tradition Weekly Summary and Giving Thanks Practice
The Perennial Tradition Summary: Sunday, November 20-Friday, November 25, 2016 The Perennial Tradition recognizes there is a Divine Reality underneath and
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December 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This Hindu blessing, from the Bhagavad Gita, is said before meals: This ritual is One. The food is One. We who offer the food are One. The fire of hunger is also One. All action is One. We who understand this are One. cac.org/daily-medita...
We must study, pray, wait, reconcile, and work to achieve true unity—not an impossible uniformity, which was the tragic mistake of both the early notion of Christendom and a later notion of Communism. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Oneing: A Deeper Unity of Spirit
The Perennial Tradition Oneing Friday, November 25, 2016 We must finally go back to the ultimate Christian source for our principle—the central doctrine
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December 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We must study, pray, wait, reconcile, and work to achieve true unity—not an impossible uniformity, which was the tragic mistake of both the early notion of Christendom and a later notion of Communism. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Many teachers have made the central but oft-missed point that unity is not the same as uniformity. Unity, in fact, is the reconciliation of differences, and those differences must be maintained—and yet overcome! #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Unity, Not Uniformity
The Perennial Tradition Unity, Not Uniformity Thursday, November 24, 2016 If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the
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December 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Many teachers have made the central but oft-missed point that unity is not the same as uniformity. Unity, in fact, is the reconciliation of differences, and those differences must be maintained—and yet overcome! #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
I think it’s safe to say that dark nights do involve a loss of meaning, loss of joy, and loss of certainty. Doubt and self-doubt are regular visitors, as is deep sorrow.
“The dark night does not reduce our capacity to care for others. Rather, it increases that capacity. In fact, some days, caring for others may be the only thing that relieves the suffering of having lost my bearings.” —Therese DesCamp buff.ly/s2xWZ1o
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I think it’s safe to say that dark nights do involve a loss of meaning, loss of joy, and loss of certainty. Doubt and self-doubt are regular visitors, as is deep sorrow.
What we seek is what we are, which is exactly why Jesus says that we will find it (see Matthew 7:7-8). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
What We Are Looking For Is Doing the Looking
The Perennial Tradition What We Are Looking For Is Doing the Looking Wednesday, November 23, 2016 I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves
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December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What we seek is what we are, which is exactly why Jesus says that we will find it (see Matthew 7:7-8). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
If it is the truth, it is true all the time and everywhere, and sincere lovers of truth will take it from wherever it comes. If it is true, it is common domain, and “there for the mind to see in the things that God has made” (Romans 1:20). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Truth Is One: Science and Spirituality Can Coexist
The Perennial Tradition Truth Is One Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Science is no longer, nor should it ever have been, our enemy; instead quantum physics,
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December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If it is the truth, it is true all the time and everywhere, and sincere lovers of truth will take it from wherever it comes. If it is true, it is common domain, and “there for the mind to see in the things that God has made” (Romans 1:20). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
It is the gift of life itself, of being asked to be a contemplative woman or a contemplative man in the midst of the world, as one in the process of transformation, so that you can become someone in whose presence others are better able to be awakened... cac.org/daily-medita...
Faculty Reflection — James Finley
The question is . . . how are we to understand ourselves as sendees? What does it mean to be a sendee? To be a sent one means that we can look back at a
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December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It is the gift of life itself, of being asked to be a contemplative woman or a contemplative man in the midst of the world, as one in the process of transformation, so that you can become someone in whose presence others are better able to be awakened... cac.org/daily-medita...
I’ve always said that Jesus didn’t come to create a new or exclusive religion. He came to reform and reinvigorate the very meaning of all religion—and ground it in human nature and creation itself—which is universal. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Whole-Making
The Perennial Tradition Whole-Making Monday, November 21, 2016 The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) stated that seminarians should “base themselves on a
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December 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’ve always said that Jesus didn’t come to create a new or exclusive religion. He came to reform and reinvigorate the very meaning of all religion—and ground it in human nature and creation itself—which is universal. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
When any religion becomes proud, it also becomes dualistic and oppositional. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Universal Wisdom
The Perennial Tradition Universal Wisdom Sunday, November 20, 2016 The Perennial Wisdom Tradition . . . offers ancient wisdom for contemporary living that
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December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When any religion becomes proud, it also becomes dualistic and oppositional. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
I hope you’ll continue to find ways to live more simply as an individual and in community, and that you’ll encourage your church and government to protect the environment. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Nature: Week 2 Summary
Nature: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, November 13-Friday, November 18, 2016 We either honor God in all things or we soon lose the basis for seeing God in
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I hope you’ll continue to find ways to live more simply as an individual and in community, and that you’ll encourage your church and government to protect the environment. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Let us work together to creatively find solutions, to reduce our carbon footprint, to live more simply and sustainably on this, our only home. Humanity and the earth really will live or die together. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Our Only Home
Nature: Week 2 Our Only Home Friday, November 18, 2016 Our world is a sacred whole in which we have a sacred mission. —Joanna Macy We are summoned to
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December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Let us work together to creatively find solutions, to reduce our carbon footprint, to live more simply and sustainably on this, our only home. Humanity and the earth really will live or die together. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
My friend and fellow Franciscan Jack Wintz has written a book called Will I See My Dog In Heaven? In it he takes the scriptural, Christian, and Franciscan traditions to their logical conclusions and his conclusion is Yes, of course! #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
One Part of Creation
Nature: Week 2 One Part of Creation Thursday, November 17, 2016 If you would learn more, ask the cattle, Seek information from the birds of the air. The
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December 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My friend and fellow Franciscan Jack Wintz has written a book called Will I See My Dog In Heaven? In it he takes the scriptural, Christian, and Franciscan traditions to their logical conclusions and his conclusion is Yes, of course! #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
That the more grounded we are in God, the more energized we are to go out to give ourselves in love and tenderness in service to the world. #JamesFinley cac.org/daily-medita...
Re-Grounding in Love: A Reflection following the Election
Click here for Cynthia Bourgeault and Richard Rohr’s post-election messages. Recommended Resources Thomas Merton, Seeds of Destruction and Conjectures of
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December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
That the more grounded we are in God, the more energized we are to go out to give ourselves in love and tenderness in service to the world. #JamesFinley cac.org/daily-medita...
Nature itself is the primary Bible. As Paul says in Romans 1:20, “What can be known about God is perfectly plain, for God has made it plain. cac.org/daily-medita...
Nature Reflects God’s Goodness and Love for all Creation
Nature: Week 2 Nature Reflects God’s Goodness Wednesday, November 16, 2016 God brought things into being in order that his goodness might be communicated
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December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nature itself is the primary Bible. As Paul says in Romans 1:20, “What can be known about God is perfectly plain, for God has made it plain. cac.org/daily-medita...
Nature was not empty of divinity. Seeing nature as secular or merely functional created much of the loneliness and seeming meaninglessness in our contemporary worldview. cac.org/daily-medita...
Creation Is the Primary Cathedral
Nature: Week 2 Creation Is the Primary Cathedral Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Creation itself—not ritual or spaces constructed by human hands—was Francis’
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December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Nature was not empty of divinity. Seeing nature as secular or merely functional created much of the loneliness and seeming meaninglessness in our contemporary worldview. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Franciscan notion of the “univocity of being” gave an early philosophical foundation to what we now call the circle of life or ecosystems, holons and fractals (parts that replicate the whole), unitive or contemplative thinking, and mysticism itself. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Univocity of Being and Seeing Christ's Fullness in Nature
Nature: Week 2 The Univocity of Being Monday, November 14, 2016 Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence,
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December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Franciscan notion of the “univocity of being” gave an early philosophical foundation to what we now call the circle of life or ecosystems, holons and fractals (parts that replicate the whole), unitive or contemplative thinking, and mysticism itself. cac.org/daily-medita...
How can we call ourselves monotheists if we cannot see that “one God” unites our world? How can we call ourselves Christians if we don’t believe that being “Christ-like” means loving “the least of the brothers and sisters” (Matthew 25:40)? #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Great Chain of Being
Nature: Week 2 Great Chain of Being Sunday, November 13, 2016 I would like to reclaim an ancient, evolving, and very Franciscan metaphor—the Great Chain
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December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How can we call ourselves monotheists if we cannot see that “one God” unites our world? How can we call ourselves Christians if we don’t believe that being “Christ-like” means loving “the least of the brothers and sisters” (Matthew 25:40)? #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...