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No images? Click here Saturday, December 10, 2022 Richard Rohr's Daily MeditationFrom the Center for Action and Contemplation Week Forty-Nine Summary and Practice FaithDecember 4 - December 9, 2022 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week Forty-Nine Practice Concrete ParticipationFather Richard invites us to find an embodied method of prayer as a way to participate more fully in our faith: Most of religious and church history has been largely preoccupied with religious ideas, about which we could be wrong or right. When faith is all about ideas, we do not have to be part of it; we just need to talk correctly about it. We never have to dive in and illustrate that spiritual proof is only in the pudding. The spiritual question is this: Does one’s life give any evidence of an encounter with God? Does this encounter bring about through us any of the things that Paul describes as the “fruits” of the Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22)? Are we any different from our surroundings, or do we reflect the predictable cultural values and biases of our own group? The “participatory turn” of faith is learning from concrete practices, personal disciplines, and interactive dialogues that change the seeker and allow and encourage the encounter itself. Many Christians today are rediscovering prayer beads, prayer of quiet, icons, contemplative sits, Taizé chants, charismatic prayer, walking meditation, Zen chores, extended silence, solitude, and disciplined spiritual direction. Up until now, someone could have a doctorate in theology as a Catholic or Protestant and not really know how to pray or even enjoy prayer or experience union with God. They could recommend it officially to others and maybe even define it; now we know that we must personally live our faith. Today, find some way to dive into your faith and experiment with ways of opening yourself to transformation, to encounter, to conscious participation in God. Experience a version of this practice through video and sound. Adapted from Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013), 108–109, 111. Image credit: Benjamin Yazza, Untitled 09 (detail), United States, photograph, used with permission. Tory Hallenburg, Walking on Water (detail), 2018, United States, photograph, Unsplash. Carrie Grace Littauer, Untitled 10 (detail), 2022, United States, photograph, used with permission. Jenna Keiper & Leslye Colvin, 2022, triptych art, United States. Click here to enlarge image. Image inspiration: Venturing beyond the monochrome of certainty, we walk into water and on ground we cannot always see. Our ripples spread beyond ourselves into this movement of faith. Explore Further. . .Read Brian McLaren on growing in faith through doubt.Learn more about this year’s theme Nothing Stands Alone.Meet the team behind the Daily Meditations.Prayer For Our CommunityGod, Lord of all creation, lover of life and of everything, please help us to love in our very small way what You love infinitely and everywhere. We thank You that we can offer just this one prayer and that will be more than enough, because in reality every thing and every one is connected, and nothing stands alone. To pray for one part is really to pray for the whole, and so we do. Help us each day to stand for love, for healing, for the good, for the diverse unity of the Body of Christ and all creation, because we know this is what You desire: as Jesus prayed, that all may be one. We offer our prayer together with all the holy names of God, we offer our prayer together with Christ, our Lord. Amen. Was this email forwarded to you? Explore Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations archive at cac.org. Sign-up for the monthly newsletter from the Center for Action and Contemplation for the latest news about our programs, including new books, podcasts, events, and online learning opportunities. The work of the Center for Action and Contemplation is possible only because of people like you! Learn more about how you can help support this work. If you would like to change how you receive these emails you can update your preferences or unsubscribe from our list.
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