Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and thePerennial Tradition.He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of theCenter for Action and Contemplation (CAC)in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Richard's teaching is grounded in the Franciscan alternative orthodoxy practices of contemplation and lived"kenosis"(self-emptying), expressing itself inradical compassion, particularly for the socially marginalized.Fr. Richard is the author of numerous books, including"Everything Belongs, Adam s Return, The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water," "Falling Upward," "Immortal Diamond, "and"Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi."Fr. Richard is academic Dean of theLiving School for Action and Contemplation. Drawing upon Christianity's placewithin the Perennial Tradition, the mission of the Living School is to produce compassionate and powerfully learned individuals who will work for positive change in the world based on awareness of our common union with God and all beings.Visitcac.orgfor more information."
By entering into the silence that is common to all, we encounter
the source beyond all stories, and come forth with greater
compassion, enhanced abilities for non-dual thought, patience, and
unshakable hope. We come to know that none of the models put forth
in a culture's myths, including our own, are truth. That being the
case, why should we argue? This silence, writes Richard Rohr, can
"absorb paradoxes, contradictions and the challenges of life." In
it, we meet God and experience the indwelling presence for
ourselves. Rohr is a Franciscan priest, teacher, noted author, and
founder and director of the Center for Action and Contemplation, in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. He writes that "any systematic teaching of
contemplation has been lost to the Western churches for most of
five centuries...Even Catholic contemplative religious orders
stopped teaching it to their own members, which was quite a loss
indeed." The result has been discord and division among Christians.
Rohr declares that "the Sunday service alone seldom leads people on
deeper or even real journeys." Yet, we are told to keep coming
back---that if we do, we'll eventually "get it." But we don't,
because those in charge haven't "got it" either. What is needed
today, according to Rohr, are "living models" of the contemplative
mind. "Whenever you see a movement into solitude or hermitage or
quiet or any kind of aloneness, you know you have non-dual
contemplative consciousness emerging," he writes. Rohr's book gives
an honest, and sometimes surprising, look at the richness of an
inner life nourished by compassionate silence. --Foreword
Reviews
The small volume is an interesting, if not thoroughly cohesive,
presentation on the need to retrieve the contemplative tradition in
the Christian religion.
--Laurie Brink, OP, Catholic Library World
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