Weekly Pause & Ponder

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The Universal Christ is trying to communicate at the deepest level that there is only One Life.  One Death, and One Suffering on this earth.  We are all invited to ride the one wave, which is the only wave there is.  Call it Reality, if you wish.  But we are all in this together…. The Gospel…is about learning to live and die in and with God—all our warts included and forgiven by an Infinite Love.  The True Gospel democratizes the world.

 - from The Universal Christ, by Richard Rohr

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Love, overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is also civic and political, and it makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world.  Love for society and  commitment to the common good are outstanding expressions of a charity which affects not only relationships between individuals, but also “macro-relationships, social, economic and political ones.” …social love is the key to authentic development.

- Laudato Si’: Encyclical Letter of The Holy Father Francis