Speaking with Authority - Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
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Speaking with Authority - Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being.
Faith is a mode of life. Where the radical question is alive, all life becomes a hearing, a listening for permission to go on; faith is this listening—to the gospel.” Lutheranism, 41.
Faith-filled words will put you over. Fear-filled words will defeat you.
When a congregation’s identity is in its resources, it is on an accelerating pace that alienates it from the world, making it excarnate in thought and practice.
“When word and silence are separated, the driveshaft grinds to a halt, and this deepening process is suspended. Severed from its nurturing ground in contemplative silence, word tends to become unduly analytical, linear, and dialectical. A vicious circle is set in motion. The farther one strays from the wellsprings of spiritual awareness and the see
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