Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant _detail__ NASA_ESA_Hubble Heritage Team.
Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant (detail), NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team.    
Science: Week 1   
Summary 
Sunday, November 1-Saturday, November 7, 2015
The ever broader shape of the cosmos is becoming an ever broader shape for theology itself. (Sunday)
 
The Primal Anointing--"Christening"--of all matter with Spirit, which began in Genesis 1:1-2, is called "the Christ" in Christian shorthand. (Monday)
 
The mystery of cosmic incarnation eliminates any radical distinction between things, peoples, and creatures because Christ existed in all matter from the first moment of the Big Bang. (Tuesday)
 
We began as one and our goal is oneness. (Wednesday)
 
The Christ is God's active power inside of the physical world. (Thursday)
 
The universe is ever changing, with the possibility--through our participation--of evolving toward greater love and wholeness. (Friday)
Practice 
The Christ Hymn
I invite you to take all this heady information and experience it at the heart level through music, poetry, and paintings. The song, by Living School alumnae, creatively renders the hymn from Colossians 1:15-20 (Common English Bible):
 
The Son is the image of the invisible God,
        the one who is first over all creation,
Because all things were created by him:
        both in the heavens and on the earth,
        the things that are visible and the things that are invisible.
            Whether they are thrones or powers,
            or rulers or authorities,
        all things were created through him and for him.
He existed before all things,
        and all things are held together in him.
He is the head of the body, the church,
who is the beginning,
        the one who is firstborn from among the dead
        so that he might occupy the first place in everything.
Because all the fullness of God was pleased to live in him,
          and he reconciled all things to himself through him-
        whether things on earth or in the heavens.
            He brought peace through the blood of his cross.
 
Enjoy a short video of the song, "The Christ Hymn," by Alana Levandoski, paintings by Julie Ann Stevens.
Video example image
Gateway to Silence
Evolving toward love
For Further Study:
Ilia Delio, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love
Reflections for Advent: Preparing for Christmas 
 
"'Come, Lord Jesus' is not a cry of desperation
but an assured shout of cosmic hope." --Rich
ard Rohr

For each day of the Advent season, Fr. Richard offers
a scripture passage, reflection, and question to help us
know the Christ who is with us now . . . and always.

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2015 Daily Meditation Theme

Richard Rohr's meditations this year explore his "Wisdom Lineage," the teachers, texts, and traditions that have most influenced his spirituality. Read an introduction to the year's theme and view a list of the elements of Fr. Richard's lineage in CAC's January newsletter, the Mendicant.  

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