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Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation – Friday, 27 December 2013 “A Universal
Contagion”
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).
“A Universal Contagion”
Meditation 49 of 52
We are all initially created in the image of
God, and Jesus is always re-creating and restoring that image in his public
ministry. You could say that is all he is doing! We Christians believe that we
cannot know the mind of God until we see what God was doing in, through, and
with Jesus. Salvation is contagious, and passes around in just that way.
Transformed people, like Jesus, naturally transform people.
The real meaning of apostolic succession is
probably not bishops laying their hands on the next generation of priests, but
Christians rubbing off on one another! I know we need a process for passing on
leadership, but right now we need to pass on grace and healing much more. We
clergy find it much easier to magically transform bread than to transform
people, situations, and the suffering of our world. Jesus’ transformations were
immediately verifiable and visible through his nonstop ministry of healing and
exorcism. The real message here is not a mere medical cure (although I have
seen them!), or whether Jesus could do such a thing, but that (1) God cares
about human pain, (2) God cares about it in this world now, (3) God’s action
actually changes people in ways that we can see, and (4) such people, and such
people alone, are equipped to pass on the real message.(Adapted from
unpublished notes-The Daily Meditations for 2013 are now available in Fr.
Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .)
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