Families and Rituals
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
Rituals create families, in a sense. Any parent knows that when they do something at least two years in a row, the little ones wait for it in the third year. Children have a natural sense of timing, ritual, seasons, ...
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Making the World a Safe Home
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
Healthy religion gives us a foundational sense of awe. It re-enchants an otherwise empty universe. It gives people a universal reverence toward all things. Only with such reverence do we find confidence and coherence. Only then does the world become ...
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Seeing Reality with Compassion
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
There’s a moral realism in healthy and grounded people. They’re not ideological, on the left or the right. They can accept people whom others have judged for one reason or another. They don’t move up in their head and form ...
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It's All about Forgiveness
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
If we don’t get forgiveness, we’re missing the whole mystery. We are still living in a world of meritocracy, of quid-pro-quo thinking, of performance and behavior that earns an award. Forgiveness is the great thawing of all logic, reason, and ...
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The True Shape of Things
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
Our world is filled with contradictions needing to be reconciled, inconsistencies within us and between us. Life is neither perfectly consistent and rational nor is it a chaotic mess. It does contain, however, constant paradoxes, exceptions, and flaws. That is ...
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Gratitude Is the 'Mystical Minimum'
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
G.K. Chesterton spoke of the “mystical minimum,” which he defined as gratitude. When we stand in the immense abundance of the True Self, there is no time or space for being hurt. We are always secure, at rest, and foundationally ...
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