Fr Richard Rohr Has A Blog

Wow!

Great and exciting news today when I opened my inbox as a new link bounced up ...

Fr.Richard Rohr has finally succumbed and has decided to write his own blog.

It's called Unpacking Paradoxes and he adds "contemplation in action, as I try to live it…


You can also get his daily meditations via e.mail from here. 
This is the one for today...
 
“Come, Lord Jesus,” the Advent prayer, means that all of Christian history has to live out of a kind of deliberate emptiness or chosen non-fulfillment. Perfect fullness is always to come, and we do not need to demand it now. This keeps the field of life wide open and especially open to grace and to a future created by God rather than us. This is what it means to be “awake,” as the gospel urges us (Matthew 24:42)! 
We can also use other a words for Advent: aware, alive, attentive, alert, and awake are all appropriate! Advent is above all else a call to full consciousness and a forewarning about the high price of consciousness.
Starter Prayer: Come, Lord Jesus!


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