Sometimes passivity is more fruitful and generative than if we were doing something. We see an example of this in Jesus. He gave both his life and his death for us – but in separate moments.
Father Ron Rolheiser: Helplessness as Fruitful
Father Ron Rolheiser: The Power of Words
Words give us meaning. We can’t make or remake reality, but the words we choose to name our reality can lift us out of the humdrum of everyday experience.
Father Ron Rolheiser: A Subtler Kind of Poverty
Whenever I see people working in service jobs such as cooking in cafeterias, cleaning houses, mowing lawns, working in construction, doing janitorial work, and other work of this kind, I am often left to wonder, are they like my brother?
Father Ron Rolheiser: Our Deepest Loneliness
Lonliness can affect us in different ways. We feel restlessness despite experiencing intimacy, and we feel a nostalgia for a home we can never quite find.
Father Ron Rolheiser: A Single Line Says It All!
St. Augustine felt there is an incurable restlessness inside each of us that keeps us perpetually dis-eased spirituality.
What Will Heaven Be Like?
Because heaven is so abstract, we try to find a description through church teachings and preachings.
How to respond to the current situation
Part of Jesus’ mission, as our liturgy puts it, was “to become sin for us”, to risk having his innocence mixed in with guilt and be perceived as sin so as to help carry darkness and sin for others.
Becoming a ‘holy beggar’ in our retirement years
What are our retirement years meant for, spiritually?