Faith is not an opinion, it is an attitude. Brother Roger of Taizé. So I saw and understood that our faith is our light in our night, which light is God, our endless day. Julian of Norwich. Faith is a God-given way of imagining existence, not a cold truth, easily captured in concepts. Michael Paul Gallagher […]
To have faith in God is to revive what is concealed. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Archbishop Jean Marie Lustiger speaks of discovering God by situating ourselves differently in relation to ourselves, the world and “the One [we] do not know”. This suggests a radical kind of openness, a new kind of appreciating – not seeing […]
the touching of a mystery Alexander Schmemann Faith is better understood as a verb than a noun, as a process than a possession. Frederick Beuchner Catherina de Hueck Doherty talks of the gift we bring when we listen a person’s soul into existence”. Jesus – in his “openness and availability to others” – aroused in […]
God’s kingdom is creation healed Hans Kung The Kingdom is an attractive ….. What you are in love withwhat seizes your imaginationwill affect everything. Pedro Aruppe SJ Jesus paints in bold brush strokes a picture of the reign or kingdom of God. It’s not a place – or a program: it comes as a surprise, […]
It is precisely this space, which we might say God clears for us, in which we find our inherent worth and dignity. God’s first gift for us is to be able to say, “l AM”. St Augustine When I was born all creation stood up and said, “God is!” Meister Eckhart Being seen: Malcolm X, […]
a ‘hidden wholeness’ Thomas Merton An Aboriginal woman said a few years ago: “We Aboriginal people are spiritual people struggling to be human. You white Australians are humans struggling to be spiritual”. If the Enlightenment focused on knowledge , and one of the marks of Post-Modernism is information (and more and more of it) – […]
The way forward is the way to someone else. John Taylor I cannot be me without youand we cannot be us without themand together we have a futureIn our African language we say, “A person is a person through other persons”. I would not know how to be a human being at all except I […]
humanity is a family which has hardly met. Theodore Zelden The Spirit or “Go-between” God is the life-giving, erotic impulse, the spark of recognition, the relational pull and attraction in whom we find life. Jesus as the Word reminds us that our relationship with God is a kind of conversation, a “dialogue of salvation”. When […]
to see or to perish Teilhard de Chardin God “sees” and “attends” – and in the act of seeing God creates. Another way of saying this is to say God “makes room” for creation by constricting divine power. This quintessential female experience – making room for another – is always creative – it is a […]
This week begins a seven-part series A Spirituality of Communion. As an additional resource a PDF of the text of Fr Philip’s meditation is available at the link at the end of the post. fostering a climate where communion takes placeElizabeth O’Connor Let there be spaces in your togethernessKahlil Gibran The word salvation (like the […]