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Richard Rohr
We ended up spreading our national cultures under the rubric of Jesus, instead of a universally liberating message under the name of Christ.
Christ is God, and Jesus is the Christ’s historical manifestation in time.
Faith, hope, and love are the very nature of God, and thus the nature of all Being. Such goodness cannot die. (Which is what we mean when we say “heaven.”)
No one religion will ever encompass the depth of such faith. No ethnicity has a monopoly on such hope. No nationality can control or limit this Flow of such universal love.
Most Catholics and Protestants still think of the Incarnation as a one-time and one-person event having to do only with the person of Jesus of Nazareth, instead of a cosmic event that has soaked all of history in the Divine Presence from the very beginning.
God is Relationship itself, a dynamism of Infinite Love between Divine Diversity, as the doctrine of the Trinity demonstrates.
The world no longer trusts Christians who “love Jesus” but do not seem to love anything else.
Christ is the light that allows people to see things in their fullness. The precise and intended effect of such a light is to see Christ everywhere else. In fact, that is my only definition of a true Christian. A mature Christian sees Christ in everything and everyone else.
I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.
