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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 22h

We wasted years of history arguing over whose God was best or true, instead of actually meeting the always best and true God of love, forgiveness, and mercy. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Step Three

Twelve-Step Spirituality: Week 1 Step Three Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 22h

The only people who grow in truth are those who are both humble and honest. This is traditional Christian doctrine and is the maxim of Alcoholics Anonymous. Without those two qualities, we don’t grow. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Step Two

Twelve-Step Spirituality: Week 1 Step Two Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. A Cherokee

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 22h

The first step of the journey is the admission of powerlessness. It is where no one wants to go and no one will go voluntarily. We have to be led there through our own failure and experience of death. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Step One

Twelve-Step Spirituality: Week 1 Step 1 Monday, May 30, 2016 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. The

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Center for Action and Contemplation @cac-org.bsky.social · 2d

Thirty-eight years ago, Fr. Richard Rohr opened the Center for Action and Contemplation, creating a space for transformed people to work together for a more just and connected world.

In what ways has the CAC helped you experience a spiritual transformation in your life?

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Center for Action and Contemplation @cac-org.bsky.social · 1d

"Jesus had a clear and unambiguous vision of the healthy world that God intended and that he addressed any issue — social, economic, or political — that violated that vision." —Obery Hendricks Jr.

Read more in today's "Daily Meditations." buff.ly/OlPBNPr

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 1d

Transformation has little to do with intelligence, willpower, or perfection. It has everything to do with honest humility, willingness, and surrender. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

In Need of Healing

Twelve-Step Spirituality: Week 1 In Need of Healing Sunday, May 29, 2016 I believe the Twelve-Step programs are a movement of the Spirit in our time. In

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

Rites of passage take many forms, but they often include periods of solitude, fasting, rituals to symbolize letting go and dying, and council (sacred dialogue with a guide and other initiates). cac.org/daily-medita...

Initiation: Weekly Summary

Initiation Summary: Sunday, May 22-Friday, May 27 Throughout most of history, the journey through death into life was taught in sacred space and ritual

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

The old self always has to die before the new self can be born, which is the Passover experience we resist. In the language of John’s Gospel (12:24), “The grain of wheat must die or it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies bears much fruit.” cac.org/daily-medita...

You Are Going to Die

Initiation You Are Going to Die Friday, May 27, 2016 As Ernest Becker argues so compellingly in his book, The Denial of Death, the heroic projects of men

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

Having control is a major desire and need in the early years of life, yet many hold on to it until their last breath. Try practicing to release control early; it will make your second half of life much happier. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

You Are Not in Control

Initiation You Are Not in Control Thursday, May 26, 2016 To be in control of one’s destiny, health, career, or finances seems to be an unquestionable

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

Your life is not about you. It is about God and about allowing Life and Death to “be done unto me,” which is Mary’s prayer at the beginning of her journey and Jesus’ prayer at the end of his. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Your Life Is Not about You

Initiation Your Life Is Not about You Wednesday, May 25, 2016 One reason we Christians have misunderstood many of Jesus’ teachings is that we have not

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus called it “receiving the kingdom like a little child” (see Luke 18:17). To submit to being taught means accepting the wonder and largeness of truth and our own smallness in relationship to it. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

You Are Not That Important

Initiation You Are Not That Important Tuesday, May 24, 2016 I think there are basically two paths of spiritual transformation: prayer and suffering. The

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

If you do not transform your pain, you will almost certainly transmit your pain to others through anger, blame, projection, hatred, or scapegoating. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Life Is Hard

Initiation Life Is Hard Monday, May 23, 2016 In my cross-cultural research on initiation rites, I have observed five consistent lessons communicated to

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

All great spirituality is about letting go. Instead we have made it to be about taking in, attaining, performing, winning, and succeeding. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Passing from Death to Life Now

Initiation Passing from Death to Life Now Sunday, May 22, 2016 How do we explain the larger-than-life, spiritually powerful individuals who seem to move

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

offer yourself to the deep wisdom of loving surrender. cac.org/daily-medita...

Sent Alone and Together

Dear Sendees of the Living School, The Sandhill Cranes have flown north now; few remain in the area. But for weeks they flew by the thousands over the CAC

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

Someone can be racist, be against the poor, hate immigrants, and be totally concerned about making money and being a materialist but still go to church each Sunday and be “justified” in the eyes of religion.

Center for Action and Contemplation @cac-org.bsky.social · 3d

“Jesus offered the promise of justice, healing, and redemption.… Jesus became the prophetic teacher of a spiritual renewal for the poor and the oppressed.” —Steven Charleston

Read on in today's “Daily Meditations.” buff.ly/EdBZ6yk

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

Those who are totally converted come to every experience & ask not whether they like it, but what does it have to teach them. “What message or gift is in this for me? How is God in this event? Where is God in this suffering? What is God calling me to do?” cac.org/daily-medita...

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Summary

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, May 15-Friday, May 20, 2016 Moses takes spirituality and social engagement together from the very

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

"We have an invitation to tear down the walls, to bust through the fences, and to get to know the names and the faces of those who are suffering outside of our comfort." -Shane Claiborne cac.org/daily-medita...

Both: Praying and Doing

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Both: Praying and Doing Friday, May 20, 2016 I think one major reason why only a minority of people work for peace and

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

They grow into an understanding of this God of love, this God of compassion, this God who loves justice, this God who makes all things new, by participating as active observers and agents of compassion, justice, and newness. cac.org/daily-medita...

Love in Action

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Love in Action Thursday, May 18, 2016 The way to arrive and remain within “the force field of the Holy Spirit,” which is

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 2d

As I’ve said before, we cannot know God in a cerebral way, but only by loving God through a different kind of knowing. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Consciousness and Contemplation

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Consciousness and Contemplation Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Today’s meditation is longer than usual, but I want you to have

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 4d

Contemplation teaches you how to stand guard and not let your emotions and obsessive thoughts control you. Contemplation and silence nip the ego and its negatives in the bud by teaching you how to watch and guard your very thoughts. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

The Contemplative Mind Is a Mind Liberated from Itself

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 The Contemplative Mind Is a Mind Liberated from Itself Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Within twenty-four hours of Rowan Williams’

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 4d

Many have said, and I totally agree, that true religion is not trying to make human beings spiritual. We’re already spiritual beings. Great religion is trying to make human beings human. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Fully Human

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Fully Human Monday, May 16, 2016 Many have said, and I totally agree, that true religion is not trying to make human

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 4d

God asserts God’s ultimate freedom from human attempts to capture God in concepts and words by saying, “I am who I am” (Exodus 3:14). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Face to Face Knowing

Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Face to Face Knowing Sunday, May 15, 2016 Moses is the first person in the Bible who is spoken of as knowing God “face to

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 12d

If you haven’t yet found a regular practice, I encourage you to try different experiences and stay with one for a while. Over time—months, years, a full lifetime—contemplation gradually opens our hearts, minds, and bodies to Love as our True Self. cac.org/daily-medita...

Action and Contemplation: Week 1 Summary

Action and Contemplation: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, May 8-Friday, May 13, 2016 If we are going to have truly prophetic people who go beyond the categories

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 12d

The most important word in our Center’s name is not Action nor is it Contemplation, but the word and. We need both action and contemplation to have a whole spiritual journey. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Contemplation AND Action: A Nondualistic Journey

Action and Contemplation: Week 1 Contemplation AND Action Friday, May 13, 2016 I used to think that most of us must begin with contemplation or a unitive

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Richard Rohr Fan Club @rohrfan.bsky.social · 12d

This is second half of life religion, although it can happen at any age. The experience occurs when God or life destabilizes your private ego, usually through some form of suffering. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

Radical Transformation

Action and Contemplation: Week 1 Radical Transformation Thursday, May 12, 2016 Mature religion teaches contemplation as a path to true transformation. But

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