Weekly Pause & Ponder

We must regain the conviction that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.  We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty…. When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of genuine culture and care of the environment.

Pope Francis.  Laudate Si, ’229.  www.ncronline.org. June 17, 2017.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Jesus’ strategy was based on an egalitarian sharing of spiritual and material power at the most grassroots level …. Here, I think, is the heart of the original Jesus movement.

John Dominic Crossan. Quoted from Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

You are a miracle of evolution, a biological organism delicate and fragile and yet tenacious because you have survived throughout eons of cosmic cycles. You are what you are because the universe is what it is. The universe is what it is because you are what you are. The body you inhabit may seem to be your personal possession, but in truth it belongs to the universe.

Deepak Chopra.  Power, Freedom and Grace.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Persons are not isolated but exist only in relation. Hence, it is not Jesus’ isolated body that is significant, but his body interacting with other bodies. The corporate body generated by Jesus interacting with his contemporaries and with us is the incarnation of Christ-gestalt.

Peter C. Hodgson’s quote in  Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The foundation of existence is not mere being itself (what is) but relationality (what is becoming): union is always toward more being.

Ilia Delio, from Teillard to Omega: Cocreating an Unfinished Universe.