Richard Rohr Fan Club
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A fan of Franciscan Father Richard Rohr
Human love is conditional and operates out of a scarcity model. There’s not enough to go around, just like Andrew said about the boy’s five loaves and two small fish (John 6:9). Humans can’t conceptualize or even think infinite or eternal concepts. cac.org/daily-medita...
Infinite Presence, Infinite Love
Nature: Week 1 Infinite Presence, Infinite Love Monday, November 7, 2016 When he considered the primordial source of all things, was filled with even more
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December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Human love is conditional and operates out of a scarcity model. There’s not enough to go around, just like Andrew said about the boy’s five loaves and two small fish (John 6:9). Humans can’t conceptualize or even think infinite or eternal concepts. cac.org/daily-medita...
God is not just saving people; God is saving all of creation. It is all “Real Presence.” We could call it the primordial “Christification” or anointing of the universe at Creation. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Christification of the Universe
Nature: Week 1 The Christification of the Universe Sunday, November 6, 2016 The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. —John 6:51
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December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
God is not just saving people; God is saving all of creation. It is all “Real Presence.” We could call it the primordial “Christification” or anointing of the universe at Creation. cac.org/daily-medita...
Rest in silence for several minutes (or continue with a longer time of contemplative prayer) and then turn your gaze to bless the rest of the room, landscape, and world in which you find yourself, one in Love. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 Summary and Moving Beyond Matter Practice
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, October 30-Friday, November 4, 2016 The mystery of Christ is revealed, and the Christ “comes again,” whenever
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December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Rest in silence for several minutes (or continue with a longer time of contemplative prayer) and then turn your gaze to bless the rest of the room, landscape, and world in which you find yourself, one in Love. cac.org/daily-medita...
As the central doctrine of the Trinity has made clear to many of us, there can be no infilling unless there is first of all a self-emptying. cac.org/daily-medita...
A New Cosmology Requires Surrender
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 A New Cosmology Friday, November 4, 2016 is fundamentally and primarily living. Christ, through his Incarnation, is interior to
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December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As the central doctrine of the Trinity has made clear to many of us, there can be no infilling unless there is first of all a self-emptying. cac.org/daily-medita...
Thankfully, within churches and society at large there is always a leaven, a critical mass, a few people who carry the momentum toward greater inclusivity, compassion, and love. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Pattern of Evolution Moves Toward Salvation
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 The Pattern of Evolution Thursday, November 3, 2016 Perhaps the reason it is so hard for us to see the evolution of the Cosmic
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December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thankfully, within churches and society at large there is always a leaven, a critical mass, a few people who carry the momentum toward greater inclusivity, compassion, and love. cac.org/daily-medita...
We worship God by walking with love and respect on this planet and with all other creatures. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
All-Inclusive, All-Pervading
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 All-Inclusive, All-Pervading Tuesday, November 1, 2016 (All Saints' Day) Human beings are programmed to love all other living
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December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We worship God by walking with love and respect on this planet and with all other creatures. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Jesus did not come to create a country club or a tribe of people who could say, “We’re in and you’re out. We’ve got the truth and you don’t.” Jesus came to reveal something that was true everywhere, for everyone, and all the time. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Bigger than Christianity
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 Bigger than Christianity Monday, October 31, 2016 The “Christ Mystery” is much bigger than Christianity as an organized
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December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Jesus did not come to create a country club or a tribe of people who could say, “We’re in and you’re out. We’ve got the truth and you don’t.” Jesus came to reveal something that was true everywhere, for everyone, and all the time. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
All matter reveals Spirit, and Spirit needs matter to “show itself”! I believe “the Second Coming of Christ” happens whenever and wherever we allow this to be utterly true for us. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The Second Coming of Christ
The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 The Second Coming of Christ Sunday, October 30, 2016 Christ is the radiant light of God’s glory and the perfect copy of God’s
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December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
All matter reveals Spirit, and Spirit needs matter to “show itself”! I believe “the Second Coming of Christ” happens whenever and wherever we allow this to be utterly true for us. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Christ’s love is the very shape of the universe. Each of us is part of this pattern. Through our conscious participation, we can grow into the fullness of love. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 Summary and Mandala Practice
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, October 23-Friday, October 28, 2016 Jesus is the union of human and divine in space and time, and the Christ is
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December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Christ’s love is the very shape of the universe. Each of us is part of this pattern. Through our conscious participation, we can grow into the fullness of love. cac.org/daily-medita...
Participating in Christ allows you to know that “I don’t matter at all, and yet I matter intensely—at the same time!” That’s the ultimate therapeutic healing. I’m just a little grain of sand in this giant, giant universe. cac.org/daily-medita...
You are the Body of Christ: Matter and Spirit Are One
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 You are the Body of Christ Friday, October 28, 2016 Christ is the eternal amalgam of matter and spirit as one. They hold and
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December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Participating in Christ allows you to know that “I don’t matter at all, and yet I matter intensely—at the same time!” That’s the ultimate therapeutic healing. I’m just a little grain of sand in this giant, giant universe. cac.org/daily-medita...
Jesus didn’t go anywhere. He became the universal omnipresent Body of Christ. That’s why the final book of the Bible promises us a new heaven and a new earth. (Revelation 21:1), not an escape from earth. cac.org/daily-medita...
Heaven and Earth Are One
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 Heaven and Earth Are One Thursday, October 27, 2016 After the microcosmic moment of Jesus, human and divine in time, the
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December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Jesus didn’t go anywhere. He became the universal omnipresent Body of Christ. That’s why the final book of the Bible promises us a new heaven and a new earth. (Revelation 21:1), not an escape from earth. cac.org/daily-medita...
Jesus reveals the whole pattern of creation and human history in condensed form. Perhaps he is best seen as a Map! Because of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, we know ahead of time that the final chapter is always resurrection. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Abstract to Personal
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 Abstract to Personal Wednesday, October 26, 2016 This diagram is an attempt to show the big picture of our growing, evolving
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December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jesus reveals the whole pattern of creation and human history in condensed form. Perhaps he is best seen as a Map! Because of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, we know ahead of time that the final chapter is always resurrection. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Outpouring Love is the inherent shape of the universe, and only when we love do we fully and truthfully exist in this universe and move toward our full purpose. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Love Is the Nature of Being
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 Love Is the Nature of Being Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Francis of Assisi understood that the entire circle of life had a Great
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December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Outpouring Love is the inherent shape of the universe, and only when we love do we fully and truthfully exist in this universe and move toward our full purpose. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
He was in the world that had its very being through him. But the world did not know him. In the same way, for the last 2,000 years, we have not understood the Cosmic Christ. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The Blueprint
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 The Blueprint Monday, October 24, 2016 Let’s begin in the beginning with the prologue to John’s Gospel (John 1:1-11). Older
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December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
He was in the world that had its very being through him. But the world did not know him. In the same way, for the last 2,000 years, we have not understood the Cosmic Christ. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The entire sweep of the meaning of the Anointed One, the Christ, includes us and includes all of creation since the beginning of time. Revelation was geological, physical, and nature-based before it was ever personal and fully relational (see Romans 1:20) cac.org/daily-medita...
God in All Things: Creation is the Body of God
The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 God in All Things Sunday, October 23, 2016 The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God
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December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The entire sweep of the meaning of the Anointed One, the Christ, includes us and includes all of creation since the beginning of time. Revelation was geological, physical, and nature-based before it was ever personal and fully relational (see Romans 1:20) cac.org/daily-medita...
In many ways prayer—certainly contemplative prayer or meditation—is planned and organized failure. If you’re not prepared for failure, you’ll avoid prayer, and that’s what most people do. cac.org/daily-medita...
Path of Descent: Weekly Summary and Falling into Love Practice
Path of Descent Summary: Sunday, October 16-Friday, October 21, 2016 The pattern of down and up, loss and renewal, enslavement and liberation, exile and
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December 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In many ways prayer—certainly contemplative prayer or meditation—is planned and organized failure. If you’re not prepared for failure, you’ll avoid prayer, and that’s what most people do. cac.org/daily-medita...
Life is all about winning by losing—losing with grace and letting our losses teach and transform us. And yes, this is somehow saying that God suffers—and our suffering is also God’s suffering, and God’s suffering is ours (Colossians 1:24). cac.org/daily-medita...
The Crucified Jesus
Path of Descent The Crucified Jesus Friday, October 21, 2016 They will look upon him whom they have pierced. —John 19:37 Those who “gaze upon” the
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Life is all about winning by losing—losing with grace and letting our losses teach and transform us. And yes, this is somehow saying that God suffers—and our suffering is also God’s suffering, and God’s suffering is ours (Colossians 1:24). cac.org/daily-medita...
We must acknowledge that much of Christian spirituality comes from other sources than Jesus’ teaching. That’s not necessarily wrong, but we have to admit when we’re listening to Western culture rather than Jesus. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Going Up the Down Escalator
Path of Descent Going Up the Down Escalator Thursday, October 20, 2016 As Christianity evolved in the centuries following Jesus’ death and resurrection,
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December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We must acknowledge that much of Christian spirituality comes from other sources than Jesus’ teaching. That’s not necessarily wrong, but we have to admit when we’re listening to Western culture rather than Jesus. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The path of descent involves letting go of our self-image, our titles, our public image. I think this is one of the many meanings of the First Commandment: “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
A Clod of Earth
Path of Descent A Clod of Earth Wednesday, October 19, 2016 The path of descent involves letting go of our self-image, our titles, our public image. I
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December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The path of descent involves letting go of our self-image, our titles, our public image. I think this is one of the many meanings of the First Commandment: “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The discernment and the call to a life of service, to a life that gives itself away instead of simply protecting and procuring for itself in the name of Jesus, is what church should be about. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Jesus' Invitation: Follow Me
Path of Descent Jesus' Invitation: Follow Me Tuesday, October 18, 2016 I have found the phenomenon of male initiation in every culture and on every
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December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The discernment and the call to a life of service, to a life that gives itself away instead of simply protecting and procuring for itself in the name of Jesus, is what church should be about. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Rather than look for impressive apparitions or miracles, Jesus said we must go inside the belly of the whale for a while. Then and only then will we be spit up on a new shore and understand our call, our place, and our purpose. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Sign of Jonah: The Foundational Template for Love
Path of Descent The Sign of Jonah Monday, October 17, 2016 Jesus’ primary metaphor for the mystery of transformation is the sign of Jonah (Matthew 12:39,
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December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Rather than look for impressive apparitions or miracles, Jesus said we must go inside the belly of the whale for a while. Then and only then will we be spit up on a new shore and understand our call, our place, and our purpose. cac.org/daily-medita...
The theological term for this classic pattern of descent and ascent was coined by Saint Augustine as “the paschal mystery.” We now proclaim it publicly at every Eucharist as “the mystery of faith”! cac.org/daily-medita...
The Paschal Mystery & Falling Upward
Path of Descent The Paschal Mystery Sunday, October 16, 2016 The path of descent, or the pattern of falling upward, is found throughout the Bible. Jacob’s
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December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The theological term for this classic pattern of descent and ascent was coined by Saint Augustine as “the paschal mystery.” We now proclaim it publicly at every Eucharist as “the mystery of faith”! cac.org/daily-medita...
If you learn to handle your own soul tenderly and lovingly, you’ll be able to carry this same loving wisdom out into the world. cac.org/daily-medita...
Nonviolence: Weekly Summary and "Boats on a River" Contemplative Practice
Nonviolence Summary: Sunday, October 9-Friday, October 14, 2016 “Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart.” —St. Francis of Assisi
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December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you learn to handle your own soul tenderly and lovingly, you’ll be able to carry this same loving wisdom out into the world. cac.org/daily-medita...
Picture yourself before the crucified Jesus; recognize that he became what you fear: nakedness, exposure, vulnerability, and failure. He became sin to free you from sin. (See 2 Corinthians 5:21.) cac.org/daily-medita...
Ending the Cycle of Violence: Freedom from Scapegoating
Nonviolence Ending the Cycle of Violence Friday, October 14, 2016 Picture yourself before the crucified Jesus; recognize that he became what you fear:
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December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Picture yourself before the crucified Jesus; recognize that he became what you fear: nakedness, exposure, vulnerability, and failure. He became sin to free you from sin. (See 2 Corinthians 5:21.) cac.org/daily-medita...