Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation - Father Richard Rohr Daily Meditation "The Way of the Cross" for Friday, 18 April 2014

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation - Father Richard Rohr Daily Meditation "The Way of the Cross" for Friday, 18 April 2014
Jesus crucified and resurrected is the whole pattern revealed, named, effected, and promised for our own lives. 
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"Transformative Dying" 
"The Way of the Cross"
Friday, 18 April 2014
Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. Jesus invited people to “follow” him in bearing the mystery of human death and resurrection.
Those who agree to carry and love what God loves, which is both the good and the bad of human history, and to pay the price for its reconciliation within themselves—these are the followers of Jesus—the leaven, the salt, the remnant, the mustard seed that God can use to transform the world. The cross is the dramatic image of what it takes to be such a usable one for God.
These few are the critical mass that keeps the world from its path toward greed, violence, and self-destruction. God is calling everyone and everything to God’s self (Gen. 8:16-17, Eph. 1:9-10, Col. 1:15-20, Acts 3:21, 1 Tim. 2:4, John 3:17). But God still needs some instruments and images who are willing to be “conformed to the pattern of his death” and transformed into the power of his resurrection (Phil. 3:10). They illuminate the path because they allow themselves to be used.
Jesus crucified and resurrected is the whole pattern revealed, named, effected, and promised for our own lives. The Jesus story is the universe story. The Cosmic Christ is no threat to anything but separateness, illusion, domination, and the imperial ego. In that sense, Jesus, the Christ, is the ultimate threat, but first of all to Christians themselves. Only then will they have any universal and salvific message for the rest of the earth.
Adapted from Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, pages 179-182
Gateway to Silence: I lose my life to find Life.
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