Center for Action and Contemplation - Richard
Rohr's Meditation “The Mystery of Presence” – Monday, 2 December 2013
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy
Seventh Theme: Reality is paradoxical and
complementary. Non-dual thinking is the highest level of consciousness. Divine
union, not private perfection, is the goal of all religion (Goal).
“The Mystery of Presence”
Meditation 24 of 52
The Eucharistic body and blood of Christ
is a place we must come to again and again to find our own face, to find our
deepest name, and our absolute identity in God. It takes years for this to sink
in. It is too big a truth for any one moment, too grand and wonderful for our
small hearts and minds.
So we keep eating this mystery that is
simultaneously the joy of God and the suffering of God packed into one meal.
(Some have seen the body/bread as eating the joy and the blood/wine as drinking
the suffering.) All we can really do is to be present ourselves, because we
cannot ever rationally understand this. Presence cannot really be explained.
When the two presences meet, Jesus and
the soul, then we have what Catholics brilliantly call “the Real Presence.” We
did maintain the objective end of the presence from God’s side rather well, but
we seldom taught people the subjective way of how to be present themselves!
Presence is a relational concept, and both sides must be there, or there is no
real presence. (Adapted from Eucharist as Touchstone (CD, MP3)The Daily
Meditations for 2013 are now available in Fr. Richard’s new book Yes, And . . .
.)
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