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The True Sacred, which is what you are seeking in prayer and silence, always reveals that:
- God is One, timeless, and inclusive of all.
- God is above any national or group ownership or personal manipulation.
- God is available as a free gift and not through sacrificing things.
God needs no victims and creates no victims. Jesus ends religion as sacrifice “once and for all” (Hebrews 7:27, 10:10) by revealing the tragic effects of scapegoating through what happened to him on the cross.
Jesus personifies this type of God and speaks defiantly in defense of such a God. Nowhere is he more succinct than when he quotes the Prophet Hosea, “Go and learn the meaning of the words: ‘Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifices’” (Matthew 9:13).
Adapted from Jesus’ Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount, p. 5
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“Jesus’ life and his risen body say . . . that the discovery of our own divine DNA is the only, full, and final meaning of being human. The True Self is neither God nor human. The True Self is both at the same time, and both are a total gift.” — Richard Rohr
If you already have your own copy, buy one to give away and help someone else discover what Fr. Richard calls “the big and hidden secret”: an infinite God seeks and desires intimacy with the human soul.
Support Fr. Richard’s ongoing work with your purchase from the CAC Bookstore: cac.org/store.
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