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Ronald Rolheiser, OMI

Ronald Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest with the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is an internationally renowned speaker and spiritual writer. His award-winning weekly column "In Exile" is carried by more than seventy newspapers, and he is the author of many books, including the best-selling Prayer: Our Deepest Longing and The Passion and the Cross.

The Loneliness of Gethsemane

Ronald Rolheiser, OMI May 13, 2020

Truth finds us in different ways. Sometimes we learn what something means not in a classroom, but in a hospital. Several years ago, I was visiting a man dying of cancer in a hospital room. He was dying well, though nobody dies easy.

Jesus, the Passion, and the Garden of Gethsemane

Ronald Rolheiser, OMI May 13, 2020

We speak of one section of the Gospels, that which narrates Jesus’s life from the Last Supper until his death and burial, as chronicling his “passion.”