The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

by Richard Rohr

Christ is everywhere.

In Him every kind of life has a meaning and a solid connection.

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

When I use the word “mystic” I am referring to experiential knowing instead of just textbook or dogmatic knowing.

Everything that exists in material form is the offspring of some Primal Source, which originally existed only as Spirit.

To put this idea in Franciscan language, creation is the First Bible, and it existed for 13.7 billion years before the second Bible was written.*1