Franciscan Mysticism part2

[@BobBKooenabio]

Fr. Richard Rohr is wisdom personified. What a gift. Veronica Benabio OCDS R. I.

[@sgrannie9938]

I have been at birth and death in my family. Birth is usually a joyous occasion, and death is a shattering experience, but both are deeply and profoundly... I can only say spiritual. They contract the physical world and move deeply into the soul.

[@Jchathe]

Thank you, Newton, for posting this insightful content 🙏💖

[@CaptainOfTheLostWaves]

Always a beautiful, humble lucidity to Richards prose x

[@iammisskizzy]

Today while we're all experiencing home quarantine and social distancing this is a beautiful message that informs our hearts what mortality is really all about. Forever and eternally grateful for Fr. Rohr & his incredible message.

[@AlinaLeeArts]

Working with the developmentally disabled has been some of my most profound spiritual experiences. They are truly powerful people and unfortunately put into a box (much like the rest of society except in a much stricter one).

[@juicystag205]

It's shocking to hear a Franciscan priest preaching theology which others might call New Age cliches. I, however, find it refreshing and enlightening. More Catholics need to hear this! The mystical life calls each of us.

[@lietaconyers3836]

Yes!!

[@jsharp9735]

This isn't even "new age" its just gnostic pantheism using Christianity.

[@BR-ku3le]

I am a cradle catholic and never heard this, like this. I know this to be true. Thank u Fr Rohr for bringing to light the violence done in defense of words. Its not in the talk but the walk. God bless all

[@rickmcentee9204]

New Age has a lot of eastern non-duality to it - like ancient Christian mysticism got from the desert fathers

[@mshopey32]

Try this labeling system ..I am trying to: the way ( the manner of being and living and interacting with the world), the truth ( unchanging, applicable across time, people groups, and geography) and the light (the lens of Jesus and Holy Spirit through when we see ourselves and our world). If a body of knowledge and wisdom aligns to either of these, it doesn't need any additional labeling

[@kyleneschall6695]

When the student is ready the teacher will come. Thank you Jesus 🦋

[@anxiousbeachbums]

"God is found in humility".........Love it!

[@kenmorris8825]

Wonderful information history accessible to all. Enlightenment! Thank you for your help in informing the world. Amen!🙏

[@TheLaughingMan_]

Holy mess, this was awesome.

[@newtonboyd]

I totally know what you mean!

[@markc1564]

If anyone who has taken even a cursory look at Buddhism could miss the parallels with Franciscan Mysticism, look again. On my walk through life, I have discovered from many belief systems that there are 'universal truths' and all the minor do's and don'ts are very important. I would suggest that compassion towards oneself and others is one of those universal truths!

[@Lankester_Merrin]

Very powerful talk given. Thank you !!

[@johndoe4073]

Wonderful presentation by the speaker. Thank you Richard! 🙏🏾

[@anxiousbeachbums]

Amazing..........Life changing video......???......We'll see. So on target!

[@kyleneschall6695]

My heart is filled, so beautiful 😍

[@harshvardhan3668]

Listening to him makes me see the oneness of all religions. And I feel he's right when he says that mysticism is the answer. If you subtract mysticism from ANY religion, it becomes irrelevant and OUT THERE rather than IN HERE. I cannot distinguish him from a Hindu or a Sufi mystic or any other mystic.

[@MiserereNobis]

There is no such thing as oneness of all religions. Only one is real and the others are completely false

[@johngreenhow8852]

@MiserereNobis you make God too small.

[@markballantyne393]

I am well pleased for listening to Richard, someone Who can think like me

[@samikirk05]

I so very much agree re: the non medicalization of birth & death. So many times in my long life, those were sacred moments that connected us on a profoundly deep, loving, and spiritual level.

[@leonettekaluzny4795]

Excellent

[@newtonboyd]

This is Richard Rohr. He is a Franciscan Monk and is currently at the Center for Action and Contemplation he founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Look up the Center for Action and Contemplations website for more info. I am a study of his for several years. I found him while researching after some experiences I had as a result of my practice to find that I had become a Christian Mystic. I may start teaching on this channel. Please check back. Would you be interested in that?

[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

Sounds good

[@dennisdolan7250]

Not a monk. A friar (brother). Franciscanism is a rejection of monasticism . Don’t let the hood fool you. That’s just the way the average pauper dressed until modern era

[@aGentlePilgrim]

Thank you for your profound insights, which have deepened my understanding of Franciscan spirituality. This reflection reveals the mystical Franciscan spirit centered on God’s humble, all-encompassing presence in all things. Saint Francis of Assisi did not seek God above but found Him in the material world, where He incarnated through Jesus, bringing divine light hidden within every creature, plant, and being. According to Saints Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus, God’s grace flows not from outside but within, stirring a universe that unites the sacred and the profane. Embracing an “original blessing” over “original sin,” the Franciscan tradition invites us to a cosmic Christianity, where all creation harmonizes in the primal goodness and glorious resurrection.

[@chdao]

Finally, I found a Christian that embraces panentheism.

[@shirleywestbury3175]

Magnificent insights from Richard Rohr!!!

[@annepicard713]

Helpful and a great reminder

[@janetbednarek7532]

Thank you.

[@samikirk05]

I came across a couple of images a few months ago. One was of the Latin Mass in a church crammed with statues and paintings of "heaven" (all thrones & crowns), a great deal of baroque ornamentation, and of the parishioners held at arm's length as if unworthy of Mystery and too soiled by sin to touch the Body of Christ with their hands, let alone touch the Chalice with their lips. After pondering a while on why I found this so disturbing, a question posed itself: is this what Jesus had in mind?

[@vic38290]

Wow! What a message!!

[@eileendaschbach8591]

❤

[@paulhodge7845]

It is worth mentioning that Francis had experience war and capture. He spent 12 months is a dungeon like prison under harsh conditions until he was released after a ransom was paid. I am left wondering how this experience had stripped away his ego and developed a closer relationship to Jesus Christ. Francis was no doubt suffering PTSD as a result of his war and POW trauma.

[@DrJerrydeJesus]

😊

[@DrJerrydeJesus]

😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@petercollins2729]

Thank you Richard. Hope you going OK. Peter

[@howdymegan]

Thanks for posting! Would love to know where, when and on what occasion this talk took place? Peace!

[@newtonboyd]

I think this was in April of 2012. It was a webcast put out by the CAC - Center fro Action and Contemplation - founded by Richard Rohr

[@baloosey]

Who is the speaker in the video snd where are they from?

[@newtonboyd]

That is Richard Rohr. He is a Franciscan Monk and is currently at the Center for Action and Contemplation he founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Look up the Center for Action and Contemplations website for more info. I am a study of his for several years. I found him while researching after some experiences I had as a result of my practice to find that I had become a Christian Mystic. I may start teaching on this channel. Please check back. Would you be interested in that?

[@baloosey]

@@newtonboyd perhaps yes. Thank you and God Bless

[@danjf1]

"God is not found in glory but in humility." I may have misunderstood - 20:00 I want to "glorify" God, to worship Him.To love Him. But Fr. Rohr is saying no? As a Catholic and great admirer of St.Francis and Franciscan Spirituality I am trying to undertand...

[@springbean19]

Why glorify God? He's God.

[@davidwilder7542]

How to Love if Love was never experienced, except in a Dictionary.

[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

Incredible

[@sgrannie9938]

The first split confuses me a little. I remember so clearly seeing my children realize (often none too happily) that I was not a part of them, in the physical sense. I have always believed, and still do as I watch my grandchildren and their children go through that same process, that it’s an important phase of life. It’s a challenging transition, but once the umbilical is severed, it is often replaced with a stronger cord: a golden thread from heart to heart. Or maybe I should say, soul. So for me, that first split, which I suspect I’m not quite understanding as he defines it, is ultimately, at least potentially, a positive necessity.

[@JaredClaunch]

I absolutely love the poetry of a golden thread connecting the souls I have heard Rohr, in other places, say, the dualistic thinking we develop as children is good and necessary for life; but, it isn’t equipped to handle deep truths or Mystery. From that angle, I believe bridging the “split” here would likely be referring to, awakening to a reality in which we do not truly exist as wholly separate beings. I certainly wouldn’t claim to speak for him, though

[@sgrannie9938]

@@JaredClaunch in looking back, I think I saw more clearly as a child and young adult than I do now. My mistake was attaching myself to organized religion at a time when the church and priests I was fortunate enough to know expanded my understanding and fostered growth. I say mistake because that church no longer exists, those wonderful priests (including the one who first introduced me to Fr. Rohr) are long gone, and I failed to escape before my understanding began to fall apart. So now, in my old age I find myself struggling with the wrong half of life.

[@lorraineakande121]

❤❤

[@hannahvanwormer4968]

Truth is truth

[@Apaulshi]

22:44 (4 splits)

[@newtonboyd]

They are huge if your working on personal transformation.

[@Creaperla]

can we please discuss atonenment

[@markballantyne393]

Ego is only a false cloak we invent,that is not who god created.

[@billyoumans1784]

Thank you! I still don’t see how you can have it both ways. If there is only one thing, with no duality, then necessarily that one thing must be you. There can’t be anything else. You can’t say the ground of being is God and then say there is something else, outside of that, namely you. Christian mystics always have to always stay on the dualistic side of the picture, and say God is someone other than me, or they risk being anathematized. I guess it works, but I always feel they are paying lip service to the fundamentalists, -always reaffirming “no no we’re not saying you are god, that Only true of Jesus.” Ok, it’s ok. But I think there’s a fifth split: between you and God.

[@newtonboyd]

Hello Bill, I don't have time to give a good response right now but I would suggest that non duality is less about "I am God and God is me" and more about seeing or how I see everything outside of those two things. Nothing really wrong with your observation by the way. Just suggesting a way that you might investigate it further if you're interested. I may do a video on this later.

[@billyoumans1784]

Newton Boyd thanks Newton. I love Rohr and I am a member of Contemplative Outreach. I am a dedicated practitioner of Centering Prayer. I just think Christian mysticism wants to hang on to self, even as we try to “die to self”. I really appreciate your mild and tolerant reply. And I love your idea of seeing everything outside of those two things. Really good. On some level, both duality and non-duality must be compatible. Thanks again

[@newtonboyd]

@@billyoumans1784 Very good stuff there Bill. Does your Contemplative Outreach have a website? I'd Love to see what your group is doing.

[@Creaperla]

One egg made of tuorlo, albume e guscio

[@anspaccuauhtemoc9062]

I assume that is why so many mystics have “nothingness” very central in their teachings, you can feel they are struggling too.

[@markballantyne393]

I suppose god is everything he needs nothing ,but is he happy he is us.

[@markc1564]

Oops I meant to say the minor dos and don'ts aren't important!

[@markballantyne393]

Those few who do know sustain everything, life the world znd everything that is

[@monikawinkelmann4823]

The goal is poverty not perfection.

[@dennisdolan7250]

Panentheism goes back to Gregory of Nyssa

[@Apaulshi]

Why do we recognize the difference between rich and poor? If we make them one, maybe in stillness, neither are, neither is, neither be. But we still receive from God.

[@markballantyne393]

Perhaps young infants are one ,until they become individuals.

[@markballantyne393]

Or remember

[@toriajustice605]

🤍🙏🏻

[@markballantyne393]

In the beginning of the world it was the acceptance of the supernatural not denial of death they knew ,not like today whete all must be proved ,because we can't believe that which cannot be proved this is going backwards and putting our tiny understanding everything, and we understand nothing concerning our fathers kingdom, you yourself know nothing and yet you do as our forefathers did.

[@markballantyne393]

Find God's creation in yourself.

[@markballantyne393]

Yes if Christianity does not teach supernatural god ,it is just another temporal philosophy, or worse political institution