May God bless your whole land. Viva Cristo Rey!

The passages he reads are beautiful.

And Australia 🇦🇺

Thank you!

Awesome. I want to listed to it again….

Around 1hr 16mins Mr Finley tells of a dream he had of Thomas Merton folk dancing. It is funny 😅 but he includes the Scriptural passage of Jesus telling how the children in the street were saying: we danced for you but you did not join in. - Eventually Finley says everyone got up and danced with Merton except himself because he (Finley) was too busy protecting his notes on Merton's folk dancing and he was annoyed at thinking he would lose his place in the notes because of Merton's distraction, but he was not really noticing that there was no audience to listen to him anymore because they had all gotten the message to become a child again just as Jesus says we should in Scripture and they had all joined Merton in folk dancing or as Thomas Merton called dancing with the Lord at the conclusion of his book "New Seeds of Contemplation": The Cosmic Dance.

A great pity the quality of the picture is now so,poor !

This: “Thomas Merton had insomnia, and he once wrote, I’m lying here in this bed and the bed becomes an altar, and in a distance city somewhere, someone is able to pray and perhaps people whose lives we have touched most deeply will be people we will not meet until we are dead. The power of love is not limited by space or time. It is not limited by anything.” Thank you, Jim.

I just began reading “Practical Mysticism.” It’s brief but profound.

Dualism is hard wired in the sexes. The turtle tribe male . And the mollusk tribe female. yes God may as creator of both in his superposition has a wholistic Unitive view but it would be silly to deny our own side of the dualistic unfolding. Or to paraphrase the Bible he made them male and female.

Great stuff

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Well Merton could be wrong and was probably a more ACTIVE contemplative as per his multifaith outreach. So he had reached in but gone out. Where you get the large A and the small c. The Franciscan large A didn't grasp this . The contemplatives didn't grasp this either. But the eastern Monks also mocked Merton after he said this muscular willful asceticism wasn't right for everyone so they said he only had external hesychia not internal hesychia. But maybe the Abbott in letting Rohr in was trying to shake his Monks up by opening the Rohr Franciscan external window. In sum 1 size doesn't fit all in a church where God it's central value can be ALL TO ALL in HIS infinite mercy. 🙏 frankly it's rather unfortunate and degrading to the other Monks to turn GETHSEMANI INTO the Merton shrine despite his contributions to it in lectio scriptorum. There may have been holier men there who put up with his imperfections and criticisms. But egos will clash even in monasteries for the greater good.

Beyond right and wrong, guilt and innocence , there is the wholeness of always being in the presence of God.

He's so smitten by his own voice and cleverness it's stifling. What he IS screams so loudly in my ears that I cannot hear what he saying. My limitation, I suppose

Thank you for posting this. 🙏

That may be the best two hours I've ever spent. What an incredible gift.

What a Being! Thank you

James is such a great communicator of the spiritual.

_Saint Finley, anyone?_

Now I want to go.

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Meat and potatoes

How do you know the difference between the wheat and tares? In the end at the harvest when both are matured the tares stand up straight and only the wheat will bow. Humility is the key.

I guess it would be inappropriate to provide a judgement on this video..../s/

It does take courage to become vulnerable to grow spiritually

“Love makes one”

32:38... every so often this awakening happens ... very intense - changed my life - one of the most beautiful moments I will have in my heart for eternityb

"We arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home."--Wendell Berry With deep gratitude for Shalem!

Grateful for this. I shall share this. I know many people in my parish need contact in different and substantial ways. This is beautiful and re-orienting into the grace of God's love.

Excellent teadching. So helpful. Thank you!

Especially needed in light of the trying times of Covid 19 Thank you for the relaxing and calming words.

"On the Love of God" (Gerald May) begins a bit after 4:30.

Excellent message. Thank you. So helpful!

You can't bore me with history but you can slay me with a LIE...Choosing something which has been predetermined by a power and word much greater than yours is arrogance beyond belief....Focusing on a thing? a leaf? rather than Jesus?...2 Corinthians @ While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal..... Thats why people are worshipping wrongly...hugging trees..caring more about nature than their neighbors...Romans @ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. No judgement = no discernment...Check your brain at the door - how stunned can you be...NO THANKS...Praying for you that you repent... Nothing more than yoga..A yoke... Beware people - this is another gospel!! 2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him....Show me in scripture where were told to contemplate anything...Paul warned and said think on these things none of which can be seen...Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. This man is teaching a DIFFERENT gospel...Proceed with caution

“ Sweet is Thy will “

If it were upto him, rapists, terrorist serial killer, pedofiles should come and teach and lead churches, teach Sunday school kids.....who are we to judge...right?

not funny, didnt laugh

“A difficult Path to walk, but well worth it! To be One with this moment........”

What a wonderful and concise discussion of Evelyn Underhill's work!

27:20 chant

What a beautiful glimpse into what we know that we know. 🙏🏽

James you are an inspiration to us all.

COME ON! THE reason for any journey in the religious life is "The Love for Jesus God Almighty." He draws us because He loves us and will bring us to a greater insight into His love for us, and our love for Him. Some folks like to do this out in the desert-real or constructed-and find Him there. Others do, and love, the "worldly" way, out where the majority of human beings live and die. The most contemplative moment in a Catholic life is when we are joined to Jesus in Holy Communion, Person to person.

Contemplating as undefended knowing-wow! After years of trying to practice contemplation and worrying about "being right" (there's that ego again! now I can try practicing as God calls me rather than worrying if I have the "right stuff" with me! I so appreciate the wisdom of Fr Rohr!

What about sin? Life after death? Jesus being the only way to get to Father God? What about the practicality of getting nourishment from scriptures in the Bible? All I hear is spiritual blah blah blah- mysticism.

James Finley is one incredible, special soul. Thank you for sharing this ;-)

Finley is inspiring.

I have no words for it, this lecture gives so much inspiration, guidance, depth, light....thanks enormously!