A spirituality of communion: “fostering a climate where communion takes place”
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 […]
Fully Alive, Fully Human: Radical action begins with radical contemplation.
What sort of rhythm of life have you noticed you need? Get in touch with a time(s) when God’s presence touched you. Can you imagine that same God moving and acting in you now – for the sake of our world? What’s God saying to you now? What time and space and solitude do you […]
Fully Alive, Fully Human: Prayer, enlarging the heart
Real prayer leads to action, leads to what we can do for people. But it also saves us from fantasies of omnipotence, of imagining that we can do for people what we manifestly can’t do, and from the anxiety and guilt feelings such fantasies evoke. And praying for people also makes us sensitive to their […]
Fully Alive, Fully Human: Catalyst for change
Michael Ramsey, in his book on the Transfiguration, distinguishes between archaism (yearning for the golden past), futurism (lost in a fantasy unrelated to reality), escapism (which scarcely needs an explanation), and transfiguration – the faith whereby “we bring the total situation as we ourselves participate in it, into a larger context which gives it new […]
Fully Alive, Fully Human: How can you believe in Jesus Christ and let things stay as they are?
John Taylor argues that the New Testament picture of the caring ministry of the followers of Christ may be summarized as follows: To notice the unnoticed. To celebrate the non-celebrities. To question the unquestioned. To empower the powerless. To put in touch the out of touch. We are often shocked by the world we live […]
Fully alive, fully human: a new way of being human
Jesus came, not so much to form a new religion, but to usher in a new way of human being and relating. He does not offer us a particular way of being religious, but a universal way of being human. Deeply motivated by a profound sense of the communion we have with God and each […]